Professional Profile

Jose Rocca

Photo Clinical Assistant Professor
Dept: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Email: joseg@nova.edu
Campus: Fort Lauderdale

Biosketch:
Dr. Jose Rocca, is the Founder and CEO of Solara Laboratories, a science-driven contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) located in Miami, Florida. He is widely known for his expertise in the development of complex proprietary formulations for both pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. Dr. Rocca earned his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin and then achieved his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy. He has authored several scientific papers on drug delivery systems and is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and events. He is also the inventor of a number of US and International patents for delivery technologies and pharmaceutical compositions. Dr. Rocca is a registered pharmacist who sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of several nutraceutical and pharmaceutical companies and serves as an Clinical Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Nova Southeastern University, teaching to Pharm.D. and Ph.D. graduate students.

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