Protein
Aggregation
Laboratory

Prof. Stefano Ricagno

We employ several structural biology techniques and many biophysical methods to characterise the structure, dynamics and fold stability of native and aggregated conformations.

From left to right: Luca Broggini (Post-Doc), Edoardo Durosini (M St), Stefano Ricagno (PI), Davide Pignatelli (PhD St), Federica Sonzini (junior researcher), Cristina Visentin (Assistant professor), Laure Gauthier-Manuel (Post-Doc), Nour Al Hoda Kassab (M St), Alexandra Lilly Fahlgren (M St), Batuhan Calik (M St).

Learn more about our research Meet the team

Upcoming events

Protein misfolding and aggregation in disease

Mantova, January 27th-29th, 2027

Organizers: F. Chiti, M. Nuvolone, S. Ricagno.

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Past events

Protein misfolding and aggregation in disease

Mantova, February 12th-14th, 2025

Organizers: F. Chiti, M. Nuvolone, S. Ricagno.

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Read our recent publications

Structural characterization of atrial natriuretic peptide amyloid fibrils from
patients with atrial fibrillation

Broggini L, Piccoli M, Chaves-Sanjuan A, Bonnet DMV, Cirillo F, Visentin C, Sonzini F, Signorelli P, Lavota I, Milazzo M, Nonnis S, Menicanti L, Ciconte G, Pappone C, Anastasia L, Ricagno S.

Nature Communications

A conformational fingerprint for amyloidogenic light chains

Paissoni C, Puri S, Broggini L, Sriramoju MK, Maritan M, Russo R, Speranzini V, Ballabio F, Nuvolone M, Merlini G, Palladini G, Hsu SD, Ricagno S, Camilloni C.

Elife

Affibodies as valuable tool to prevent β2m aggregation under lysosomal-like conditions.

Visentin C, Rizzi G, Wen Y, Hotot M, Roy D, Gräslund T, Capelli R and
Ricagno S.

Biology Direct

Protein
Aggregation
Laboratory

Upcoming events

Protein misfolding and aggregation in disease

Mantova, January 27th-29th, 2027

Past events

Protein misfolding and aggregation in disease

Mantova, February 12th-14th, 2025

Read our recent publications

Structural characterization of atrial natriuretic peptide amyloid fibrils from
patients with atrial fibrillation

Broggini L, Piccoli M, Chaves-Sanjuan A, Bonnet DMV, Cirillo F, Visentin C, Sonzini F, Signorelli P, Lavota I, Milazzo M, Nonnis S, Menicanti L, Ciconte G, Pappone C, Anastasia L, Ricagno S.

A conformational fingerprint for amyloidogenic light chains

Paissoni C, Puri S, Broggini L, Sriramoju MK, Maritan M, Russo R, Speranzini V, Ballabio F, Nuvolone M, Merlini G, Palladini G, Hsu SD, Ricagno S, Camilloni C.

Affibodies as valuable tool to prevent β2m aggregation under lysosomal-like conditions.

Visentin C, Rizzi G, Wen Y, Hotot M, Roy D, Gräslund T, Capelli R and
Ricagno S.

We kindly acknowledge for support and funding

Fondazione AIRC

Fondazione Telethon

Fondazione Umberto Veronesi

Fondazione CARIPLO

Seed 4 Innovation Program

MSD Animal Health

Fondazione ARISLA

PRIN2020

Contacts

Phone

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ORCID

Research Gate

Università degli Studi di Milano

ProteinAggregationLaboratory

Upcoming events

Protein misfolding and aggregation in disease

Mantova, January 27th-29th, 2027

Past events

Protein misfolding and aggregation in disease

Mantova, February 12th-14th, 2025

Read our recent publications

Structural characterization of atrial natriuretic peptide amyloid fibrils frompatients with atrial fibrillation

Broggini L, Piccoli M, Chaves-Sanjuan A, Bonnet DMV, Cirillo F, Visentin C, Sonzini F, Signorelli P, Lavota I, Milazzo M, Nonnis S, Menicanti L, Ciconte G, Pappone C, Anastasia L, Ricagno S.

A conformational fingerprint for amyloidogenic light chains

Paissoni C, Puri S, Broggini L, Sriramoju MK, Maritan M, Russo R, Speranzini V, Ballabio F, Nuvolone M, Merlini G, Palladini G, Hsu SD, Ricagno S, Camilloni C.

Affibodies as valuable tool to prevent β2m aggregation under lysosomal-like conditions.

Visentin C, Rizzi G, Wen Y, Hotot M, Roy D, Gräslund T, Capelli R andRicagno S.

We kindly acknowledge for support and funding

Fondazione AIRC

Fondazione Telethon

Fondazione Umberto Veronesi

Fondazione CARIPLO

Seed 4 Innovation Program

MSD Animal Health

Fondazione ARISLA

PRIN2020

Contacts

Phone

Email

ORCID

Research Gate

Università degli Studi di Milano

Protein
Aggregation
Laboratory

Structural characterization of atrial natriuretic peptide amyloid fibrils from
patients with atrial fibrillation

Visentin C, Rizzi G, Wen Y, Hotot M, Roy D, Gräslund T, Capelli R and
Ricagno S.