{"id":8729,"date":"2021-11-09T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T10:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amarintech.com\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:39:07","slug":"dr-francisco-stefano-the-truth-is-not-always-what-you-believe-but-what-you-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amarintech.com\/es\/dr-francisco-stefano-the-truth-is-not-always-what-you-believe-but-what-you-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Francisco Stefano: “The truth is not always what you believe, but what you find”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Francisco Stefano: \"The truth is not always what you believe, but what you find\"<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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A review of the evolution of the transdermal market in the voice of Dr. Francisco Stefano, our director. Challenges of science and passion as protagonists.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Dr. Francisco Stefano is one of the fundamental pieces of Amarin and has been part of the first transdermal developments in Argentina and Latin America. In an exclusive interview he talks to us about the beginnings of transdermal development in the region, the foundation of Amarin and shares his vision about the present and the future of this pharmaceutical form.<\/p>

An invaluable testimony where, besides sharing his vast experience in the transdermal sector, he opens the doors of his enriching personal story.<\/p>

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Getting to know Dr. Francisco Stefano<\/strong><\/h3>

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We would like to introduce Dr. Francisco Stefano. He graduated as a Physician from the University of Buenos Aires, received a fellowship from Prof. Bernardo Houssay at the Institute of Experimental Biology and completed his training in Pharmacology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) under the direction of Bernard Brodie.<\/p>

Upon returning to Argentina, he joined the nascent Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacol\u00f3gicas (ININFA), founded by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y T\u00e9cnicas (CONICET) with the aim of modernizing and promoting the development of pharmacological sciences in Argentina. He directed this Institute from 1975 to 1986.<\/p>

ININFA played an important role in the modernization of pharmacology in the country. His scientific achievements include the discovery of presynaptic receptors. This research was qualified by the British Pharmacological Journal, one of the most recognized pharmacology publications, as “one of the fifty most important papers they have ever published”<\/em>.<\/p>

In 1986 he left basic research to work in industry, joining a national laboratory where he set up an R&D sector initially dedicated to pharmacokinetic studies, which gradually evolved towards the development of formulations that facilitated absorption with low oral bioavailability. These studies were the basis for the development of transdermal products.<\/p>

He is currently the Director of Amarin. He is also Professor Emeritus at the Department of Pharmacology of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires and teaches at several private universities. In his career he has published more than 100 scientific papers in international journals and holds several patents in the transdermal area.<\/p>

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Dr. Stefano, his most personal side<\/strong><\/h3>

Such a prolific career was not by luck. It was the result of tireless work and a series of life lessons such as, for example:<\/p>