Who we are
DIRECTOR
Anna Maria Papini
Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry / Rita Levi Montalcini Award 2019 / Chaire d'Excellence ANR 2009-2013 / Leonidas Zervas Award 2008 / Dimitrios Theodoropoulos 2008
CURRENT MEMBERS
Paolo Rovero
Founder and Full Professor
Claudia Bello
Associate Professor
Mario Chelli
Founder and Senior Scientist
Francesca Nuti Research Technologist.
Research Project: Mother and Infant dyads: Lowering the impact of endocrine disrupting Chemicals in milk for a Healthy Life. Eupean Research Project: MILCH - LIFE18 ENV/IT/000460
Feliciana Real Fernandez Researcher, National Research Council of Italy as member of the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds.
Fosca Errante Research Technologist
Research Project: Immunogenicity study of anti-TNFα drugs. Plasmon surface resonance based monitoring and comparison between originators and bio-similars
Sara Aquilia PhD Student in Chemical Sciences
Research Project: Development of macromolecular and cross-linked materials based on proteins/peptides from vegetable or animal sources. Tutors: Luca Rosi and Claudia Bello
Michele Casoria PhD Student in Chemical Sciences
Research Project: Molecular Dinamics and computational study and bioinformatic approach to synthetic conformational peptide epitopes to disclose molecular mechanism of aberrant immune response in auto-immune diseases. Tutors: Marco Pagliai and Claudia Andreini
Andrea Di Santo PhD Student in the Area of Drugs and Innovative Treatments
Research Project: Design and synthesis of peptide probes for the characterization of antibodies. Tutor: Paolo Rovero
Patrycja Ledwon PhD Student, Cotutorate between the PhD Schools in Drug Research and Innovative Treatments (University of Florence) and in Chemical Sciences (Wroclaw University of Science and Techology).
Research Project: Design, synthesis and biological investigation of new peptides and peptidomimetics of cosmeceutical interest. Tutors: Paolo Rovero and Rafał Latajka
Margherita Marino PhD Student in Chemical Sciences
Research Project : Innovative liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric technologies to purify and identify biologically active antibody-drug conjugates. Tutor: Anna Maria Papini, cotutor: Hedrik Rusche
Lorenzo Pacini PhD Student in Chemical Sciences
Research Project: Greening peptide chemistry: a necessary step to the future. Tutor: Anna Maria Papini
Michael Quagliata PhD Student in Chemical Sciences
Research Project: Peptides inhibitors of ProteinProtein Interactions (PPIs): the COVID-19 case of study. Tutor: Anna Maria Papini
Agnieszka Staskiewicz PhD Student, Cotutorate between the PhD Schools in Chemical Sciences of the University of Florence and of the Wroclaw University of Science and Techology.
Research Project: Clicked analogues for the development of druggable oxytocin analogues. Tutors: Anna Maria Papini and Rafał Latajka
Angela Sofia Tino PhD Student in Chemical Sciences
Research Project : NMR-based investigation of intrinsecally disordered regions of modular proteins for tailored design of peptides. Tutor: Isabella Caterina Felli, cotutors: Anna Maria Papini and Roberta Pierattelli
Silvia Bracci Master Student in Chemical Sciences
Research project: Sintesi totale dell'Insulina estere tramite "Native Chemical Ligation" come putativo profarmaco. Tutors: Anna Maria Papini and Stephen B. Kent
Francesco Brenzini Biagioni Master Student in Chemical Sciences
Research project: Sintesi di analoghi della Lugdunina come inibitori della Anidrasi Carbonica. Tutor: Anna Maria Papini
Erasmus Students
ALUMNI
Last update
10.05.2023