Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry, University of Milan
Full Professor in Organic Chemistry, University of Milan
Visiting professor Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI
Coordinator of the Doctorate course in Chemistry, UNIMI
Award of Italian Chemical Society: "Chimica organica nei suoi aspetti sintetici (metodologie e prodotti)"
Member of the Paul Ehrlich European Medicinal Chemistry PhD Network
Organization of meetings and school
2005-2007
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2011-2015
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2014
Chairman of the “A. Corbella” Summer School: “Seminars in Organic Synthesis”, organized for young scientist
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Organization of ISBOMC’06, 3rd International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry, Milan
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Organization board of: i) X Co.G.I.C.O., Padova, 2012; ii) VIII, IX and X editions of (ISOC 8, 2011; ISOC 9, 2013; ISOC 10, 2015), Camerino (MC).
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Chairman of the XI Congress of the Interdivisional Group of Organometallic Chemistry, Milan
Research projects
1994-2016
Some selected financed research projects: “Human Capital and Mobility, Network”, COST D14, COST D1/D8; COFIN 2001; FIRB 2003; PRIN 2005 and 2009; PRISMA 2007; Fondazione Cariplo 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014; Regione Lombardia/Comunità Europea 2017.
Contracts with companies such as GlaxoWellcome (1999-2001); ENI-Donegani (2011-2013)
Teaching activity
Courses of Laboratory of Organic Chemistry II; Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry II;
Concepts and Methodologies of Organic Synthesis (in English); Introduction to Nanotechnology;
Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds
Scientific interests
AUTHOR OF ABOUT 170 PUBBLICATIONS ON INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS WITH REFEREES , 12 PATENTS AND 3 BOOK CHAPTERS.
Current interests: Design and synthesis of modified peptide nucleic acids (PNAs, DNA mimics) as tools in diagnostics and in gene therapy. Synthesis of PNAs conjugated to specific organometallic moieties as new spectroscopic and electrochemical probes (PNAs in diagnostics).
A parallel research interest is in the field of chiral heterohelicenes, with potential applications in material science, catalysis, biology, chiral sensors. Another research interest is in the field of hybrid organic-inorganic nanosystems as tools for sustained drug release
