Aoife Cotter

Aoife Cotter is a Ph.D. student at the Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland, under the supervision of Professor Luis Padrela and the co-supervision of Professor Luísa Corvo. She is a visiting PhD student at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon (FFUL). She received the Royal Chemical Society's ‘Researcher Collaboration Grant’ in 2024 and 2025, as well as the Drug Delivery to the Lungs (DDL) Career Development award in 2025, to fund her research visits to FFUL.

Her research focuses on producing dry powder formulations of biopharmaceuticals for pulmonary drug delivery, and her current interests include spray drying and liposomal delivery systems. She has completed two industry placements, one in Regeneron, Raheen, Ireland, during her undergraduate degree and another in MSD, Brinny, Ireland, during her Ph.D. Aoife obtained a first-class B.Sc. in Industrial Biochemistry from the University of Limerick in 2022 and received the ‘Industrial Biochemistry Student of the Year’ award issued by the Department of Chemical Sciences for obtaining the highest grade in the 2022 graduating class. The Irish Research Council awarded her the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Award in September 2022 to fund her Ph.D. research. Aoife is affiliated with SSPC, the Research Ireland Centre for Pharmaceuticals, and is an associate member of the Royal Chemical Society (AMRSC), and a student member of the Aerosol Society.

Pulmonary Delivery, Inhalable Biologics, Dry Powder Inhalers, Spray Drying, Liposomes, Enzymes