Bluepharma
Ines Pratas is a Quality Control Analyst at Bluepharma since May 2017, specializing in techniques such as dissolution testing, physical-chemical assays of raw materials and semi-finished products, including Karl-Fisher analysis and FTIR. Prior experience includes a research role at IBMC.INEB, focusing on molecular and cellular biology, and genetic evolution of apple trees through DNA extraction and gel electrophoresis. Ines also worked at FMUC on DNA extraction and quantification in colorectal tissue samples, detecting JC virus sequences, and completed an internship at Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra, where microbiological studies of biological samples were conducted. Ines holds a Master's degree in Industrial Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Universidade de Coimbra and a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra.
Bluepharma
Bluepharma Group is today one of the most entrepreneurial and innovative in the pharmaceutical sector, having already achieved a remarkable prestige not only in Portugal, but also in the most demanding international markets. Throughout its 20 years, Bluepharma has transformed an industrial unit that employs 58 people, in an economic group of 20 companies and more than 700 employees. It has opened offices in 4 countries (Spain, Angola, Mozambique and USA) and exported, in 2020, 88% of its production to more than 40 countries. Bluepharma's activity goes through the entire value chain of the drug, from R&D to the market, imposing itself for the excellence of its production unit, the quality and training of its employees and the experience and dynamism of its management team.