Sara Sattin

Sara graduated in 2006 from the Università degli Studi di Milano in Industrial Chemistry and Management with full marks with honours (110/110 e lode). She obtained her PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2009 working on the synthesis of inhibitors of DC-SIGN mediated infections under the supervision of Prof. Anna Bernardi.

In 2010 she joined the group of Prof. Javier de Mendoza at the ICIQ (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Tarragona, Spain) as a postdoctoral fellow working supramolecular chemistry. In 2012 she moved to Oxford (UK) to join the group of Prof. Ben G. Davis as a postdoctoral fellow in chemical biology.

At the end of 2013 she returned to Milan where she started working on the design and synthesis of small molecular probes for the allosteric modulation of the chaperone protein Hsp90.

In 2017 she was awarded and ERC Starting Grant to investigate a bacterial target for the eradication of chronic infections and the prevent the insurgence of antimicrobial resistance.

Since 2018 she is Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Milan. Her research interest spans several microbial and host protein targets involved both in self- and non-self-recognition.