Dr. das Neves is Assistant Researcher at Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S), University of Porto (UP), and Invited Assistant Professor at Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde (IUCS), Portugal. His research focuses on mucosal drug delivery, particularly via the vaginal and rectal routes. For instance, he developed and expanded on the use and understanding of cell- and tissue-based models for evaluating nanotechnology-based drug delivery systems for local therapy and prophylaxis. He is the author of 77 (h-Index: 53) peer-reviewed articles in the broad field of drug delivery, editor of four scientific books and guest editor of seven special issues in international journals. José also serves as editorial board member of international journal in the field of drug delivery and biological sciences (Pharmaceutics (MDPI), Nanomaterials (MDPI), PLOS ONE (PLoS), and Drug Delivery Letters (Bentham)), and as Director of Scientific Communications of the Controlled Release Society.