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Elisabetta Alberico obtained her Master of Science – Chemistry (with honours) at the University of Sassari, Italy and her Ph. D. (Summa cum Laude) at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany. She has been research associate at the University of Ottawa, Canada, in the group of Prof. Howard Alpern, working at the regio- and stereoselective synthesis of key 1-methyl carbapenem intermediates via hydroformylation using a zwitterionic rhodium catalyst. Since 2001 she is researcher at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry ICB-CNR in Sassari, Italy and, since 2011, she is associate researcher in the group of Prof. Matthias Beller at the Leibniz Institut für Catalyse, Rostock, Germany. She is co-author of 48 publications on international peer-reviewed journals (Web of Science, September 2021) and 5 book chapters. She has been reviewer for ACS Catalysis, Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Science, ChemCatChem, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Select, Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. Her research interests are devoted to the design and synthesis of novel homogeneous catalysts based on noble and non-noble transition metals, for hydrogenation, transfer hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions; to the development of homogeneous catalytic processes for the reduction of multiple bonds as key steps in the synthesis of molecules of industrial relevance; to the homogeneously catalyzed hydrogen generation from renewables (methanol, formic acid) under mild conditions; to the investigation into the mechanism of the reactions catalyzed by the developed catalysts.

Skills Homogeneous Catalysis
Hydrogen
Renewable Energy
Organometallic Synthesis Publications

1. Alberico E.,* Leischner T., Junge H.,* Kammer A., Sang R., Seifert J., Baumann W., Spannenberg A., Junge K., Beller M.* HCOOH disproportionation to MeOH promoted by molybdenum PNP complexes, Chem. Sci. 2021 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc04181a

2. Papa V., Cabrero-Antonino J. R., Alberico E., Spannenberg A., Junge K., Junge H. Beller M.* Efficient and selective hydrogenation of amides to alcohols and amines using a well-defined manganese–PNN pincer complex, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 3576, DOI: 10.1039/c7sc00138j

3. Alberico E., Lennox A. J. J., Vogt L. K., Jiao H., Baumann W., Drexler H.-J., Nielsen N., Spannenberg A., Marek P. Checinski M. P., Junge H., Beller M.* Unravelling the Mechanism of Basic Aqueous Methanol Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by Ru−PNP Pincer Complexes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 14890−14904, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b05692

4. Nielsen M., Alberico E., Baumann W., Drexler H.-J., Junge H., Gladiali S., Beller M.* Low-temperature aqueous-phase methanol dehydrogenation to hydrogen and carbon dioxide, Nature, 2013, 495, 85-89, DOI:10.1038/nature11891

5. Alberico E., Sponholz P., Cordes C., Nielsen M., Drexler H.-J., Baumann W., Junge H., Beller M.* Selective Hydrogen Production from Methanol with a Defined Iron Pincer Catalyst under Mild Conditions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 14162 –14166, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307224

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   elisabetta.alberico@cnr.it – elisabetta.alberico@catalysis.de

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Fabrizio Chiodo studies carbohydrate-mediated immunological responses mostly in the context of conjugate-vaccines and host-pathogen interactions. He defended his PhD in 2013 in Spain (Applied Chemistry, working on synthetic vaccines and nanotechnology applied to vaccinology), and in 2014 he obtained a personal grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research working at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and Leiden University Medical Center. He initiated and strengthened International collaborations in the field of vaccinology especially with the Finlay Institute in Havana (Cuba), where he is appointed as Invited Lecturer at the Faculty of Chemistry. In 2018 he was awarded with a personal grant from the Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute working independently at the Y. van Kooyk group. From October 2020 he is a Research Assistant Professor at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) working at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Naples, keeping his affiliation and position also in Amsterdam.

Competenze GlycoScience
GlycoImmunology
Carbohydrate-mediated interactions
Conjugate-vaccines
Innate responses Pubblicazioni

SARS-CoV-2 RBD-Tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine induces a strong neutralizing immunity in preclinical studies. Y. Valdes-Balbin, D.Santana-Mederos, L. Quintero, S. Fernandez, L. Rodriguez, B. Sanchez-Ramirez, R. Perez, […], F. Chiodo, F. Paquet, G. Chen, D. G Rivera, D. Garcia-Rivera, V. Verez-Bencomo. 2021, ACS Chemical Biology, 16, 7, 1223–1233

Q. Zhu, Z. Shen, F. Chiodo, S. Nicolardi, A. Molinaro, A. Silipo, B. Yu. Chemical synthesis of glycans up to a 128-mer relevant to the O-antigen of Bacteroides vulgatus. 2020, Nature Communications, 11, 4142

Q. Zhang, A. Gimeno, D. Santana, Z. Wang, Y. Valdes-Balbin, L. Rodriguez-Noda, T. Hansen, L. Kong, M. Shen, H. Overkleeft, V. Verez-Bencomo, G. van der Marel, J. Jiménez-Barbero, F. Chiodo, J. Codée. Synthetic, zwitterionic Sp1-oligosaccharides adopt a helical structure crucial for antibody interaction. 2019, ACS Central Science, 5, 1407-1416

S. Nicolardi, Y. van der Burgt, M. Wuhrer, J. Codee. C. H. Hokke, F. Chiodo. Structural characterization of bio-functionalized gold nanoparticles by ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry. 2017, ACS Nano, 11, 8257-8264

M. Marradi, F. Chiodo, I. García, S. Penadés. Glyconanoparticles as multifunctional and multimodal carbohydrate systems. 2013, Chemical Society Reviews, 42, 4728-4745

Contatti    MAIN RESEARCH SITE, POZZUOLI (NA)    f.chiodo@icb.cnr.it

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Carmelo Drago graduated in chemistry at the University of Catania on 21st December 2001 (grade, 110/110). In April 2002 he started a PhD at the Chemistry Department of Sheffield University (U.K.) working on a project entitled “Combinatorial Approaches to Catalysis for Asymmetric Sulfide Oxidation” under the supervision of Prof. R. F. W. Jackson. This project was funded by the European Union and was part of an European Network project: COMBICAT “The Discovery of New Molecular Catalysts through Combinatorial Chemistry”. In December 2005, he moved to Milan where he undertook his experience at CISI scrl, originally a spin-off supported by the University of Milan on guidance of Prof. Carlo Scolastico, where he was involved on the “design, synthesis and biological screening of libraries of molecules obtained using high throughput techniques starting from original structural unities, for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications”. In March 2011, he moved to the Nanotechnologies Laboratory of the ISTM (CNR) in Milan, where he worked on a project concerning the Synthesis, design and characterization of SPIO nanoparticles conjugated to biomolecules for therapeutic and diagnostic applications under the supervision of Dr. Alessandro Ponti, with whom he currently continues to collaborate. Since November 2011, he is working as a permanent researcher (reg.-n° 14514) at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (CNR) of Catania, where he is involved in research projects in the area of sustainable chemistry (development of catalytic, sustainable, for the transformation of used vegetable oils into biofuels), medicinal chemistry (synthesis of molecules for therapeutic and diagnostic applications) and in the field of functionalized materials both for the development of biosensors (amperometric, optical, etc.) and drug delivery (functionalization of SPIO nanoparticles).

Skills Organic Synthesis
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Green Chemistry
Sustainable Processes
Biofuels
Enhancement of Renewable Feedstocks
Microwave Assisted Organic Synthesis Publications

1. 1.    Zwitterion-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Surface Chemistry and Intracellular Uptake by Hepatocarcinoma (HepG2) Cells; Sara  Mondini, Marianna  Leonzino, Carmelo  Drago, Anna  M.  Ferretti, Sandro  Usseglio, Daniela  Maggioni, Paolo  Tornese, Bice  Chini, Alessandro  Ponti, Langmuir, 2015, 31, 7381
   2.    Magnetic nanoparticles conjugated to chiral imidazolidinone as recoverable catalys; Sara Mondini, Alessandra Puglisi, Maurizio Benaglia, Daniela Ramella, Carmelo Drago, Anna M. Ferretti, and Alessandro Ponti, J Nanopart Res (2013) 15:2025
   3.    One-pot microwave assisted catalytic transformation of vegetable oil into glycerol-free Biodiesel; C. Drago, L. F. Liotta, V. La Parola, M. L. Testa and G. Nicolosi; Fuel, 2013, 113, 707
   4.    Bisphosphonate-functionalized cyclic Arg-Gly-Asp peptidomimetics; Carmelo Drago, Daniela Arosio, Cesare Casagrande, and Leonardo Manzoni; ARKIVOC 2013, 18
   5.    Dimeric Smac mimetics/IAP inhibitors as in vivo-active pro-apoptotic agents. Part II: Structural and biological characterization; Pierfausto Seneci, Laura Belvisi, Martino Bolognesi, Monica Civera, Federica Cossu, Michelandrea De Cesare, Domenico Delia, Carmelo Drago, Daniele Lecis, Leonardo Manzoni, Eloise Mastrangelo, Mario Milani, Elisabetta Moroni, Paola Perego, Donatella Potenza, Vincenzo Rizzo, Cinzia Scavullo, Federica Servida, Francesca Vasile and Carlo Scolastico; Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2012, 20, 6709
   6.     Homo- and heterodimeric Smac mimetics/IAP inhibitors as in vivo-active pro-apoptotic agents. Part I: Synthesis; Pierfausto Seneci, Laura Belvisi, Aldo Bianchi, Martino Bolognesi, Carmelo Drago, Domenico Delia, Marilenia de Matteo, Luca Ferrante, Leonardo Manzoni, Paola Perego, Donatella Potenza, Vincenzo Rizzo, Federica Servida, Gabriele Timpano, Francesca Vasile and Carlo Scolastico; Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2012, 20, 6687
   7.    Novel SMAC-mimetics synergistically stimulate melanoma cell death in combination with TRAIL and Bortezomib, D. Lecis, C. Drago, L. Manzoni, P. Seneci, C. Scolastico, E. Mastrangelo, M. Bolognesi, A. Anichini, H. Kashkar, H. Walczak and D. Delia, British Journal of Cancer, 2010, 102, 1707
   8.    Rational design, synthesis and characterization of potent, non-peptidic SMAC mimics/XIAP inhibitors as proapoptotic agent for cancer therapy, Pierfausto Seneci, Aldo Bianchi, Cristina Battaglia, Laura Belvisi, Martino Bolognesi, Andrea Caprini, Federica Cossu, Elena de Franco, Marilenia De Matteo, Domenico Delia, Carmelo Drago, Daniele Lecis, Leonardo Manzoni, Eloise Mastrangelo, Mario Milani, Ilaria Motto, Donatella Potenza, Vincenzo Rizzo, Federica Servida, Elisa Turlizzi, Maurizio Varrone, Francesca Vasile, and Carlo Scolastico, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2009, 17, 5834
   9.    Enantioselective oxidation of a alkyl aryl sulfide: Synthesis of (S)-(-)-Methyl p-bromophenyl sulfoxide, C. Drago, E. Walker, L. Caggiano and R.F.W. Jackson, Organic Syntheses, 2009, 86, 121. 
   10.    mimetics. Structure, activity and recognition principles, Eloise Mastrangelo, Federica Cossu, Mario Milani, Graziella Sorrentino, Daniele Lecis, Domenico Delia, Leonardo Manzoni, Carmelo Drago, Pierfausto Seneci, Carlo Scolastico, Vincenzo Rizzo and Martino Bolognesi, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2008, 384, 673.
   11.    A Vanadium-catalysed Sulfur Oxidation/Kinetic Resolution Process for the Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure Alkyl Aryl Sulfoxides, Carmelo Drago, Lorenzo Caggiano, and Richard F.W. Jackson, Angewandte-Chemie International Edition, accepted as VIP, 2005, 44, 7221

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   carmelo.drago@cnr.it

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Dr. Finore received his Bachelor Degree in Environmental Sciences, Marine specialization at the Parthenope University in 2006, discussing the experimental thesis in Marine Microbiology entitled “Biodiversity studies of halophilic species of the salt lake Fuente de Piedra” , with the vote of 110/110; She then obtained the title of Expert in the Management of Protected Natural Areas at the University of Molise, from the 1st Master (Level II) in Governance of protected natural areas. In 2011, Dr. Finore obtained the title of DOCTOR of RESEARCH in “Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development” (XXIII cycle) by discussing the experimental doctoral thesis entitled: “Bioethanol: a source of renewable energy from extremophiles” with Label of “Doctor Europaeus” held at the CNR Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of Pozzuoli (Na). Since 2019, she was promoted to the position of research fellow at ICB for the strategic area of ​​Green Chemistry.

Skills Extremophilic microorganisms
Extremozymes
Exopolysaccharides
Biotransformation
Waste biomass valorization. Publications

• Finore Ilaria; Adrien Vigneron; Warwick F. Vincent; Luigi Leone; Paola Di Donato; Aniello Schiano Moriello; Barbara Nicolaus; Annarita Poli (2020) “Novel Psychrophiles and Exopolymers fromPermafrost Thaw Lake Sediments”Microorganisms, 8, 1282.
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• Ilaria Finore, Licia Lama, Paola Di Donato, Ida Romano, Annabella Tramice, Luigi Leone, Barbara Nicolaus, Annarita Poli (2019) Parageobacillus thermantarcticus, an Antarctic Cell Factory: From Crop Residue Valorization by Green Chemistry to Astrobiology Studies Diversity 11(8), 128; https://doi.org/10.3390/d11080128

• Di Donato Paola, Finore Ilaria, Poli Annarita, Nicolaus Barbara, Lama Licia (2019) “The production of second generation bioethanol: The biotechnology potential of thermophilic bacteria”. J of Cleaner Production 233; 1410-1417 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.152

• Ilaria Finore, Annarita Poli, Paola Di Donato, Licia Lama, Antonio Trincone, Massimo Fagnano, Mauro Mori, Barbara Nicolaus and Annabella Tramice ‘The hemicellulose extract from Cynara cardunculus: a source of value-added biomolecules produced by xylanolytic thermozymes’ Green Chem., 2016,18, 2460-2472 DOI: 10.1039/C5GC02774H

• Faruk Küçükaşik, Hande Kazak, Dilvin Güney, Ilaria Finore, Annarita Poli, Orhan Yenigün, Barbara Nicolaus, Ebru Toksoy Öner (2011). ‘Molasses as Fermentation Substrate for Levan production by Halomonas sp.’ Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2011) DOI 10.1007/s00253-010-3055-8

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   ilaria.finore@icb.cnr.it

   PEC: ilariafinore@pec.it

   (+39) 081 8675118

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Claudia Honisch received her master’s degree in Pharmacy at the University of Padua on March 7th 2016, with an experimental thesis carried out as part of the Erasmus Project at Universität Regensburg (DE) entitled “Synthesis and pharmacological characterization of cabamoylguanidine-type histamine H2 receptor agonists “under the supervision of Prof. Armin Buschauer. In June 2016 she obtained the Qualification to Practice the Profession of Pharmacist. In September 2016 she started a scholarship at ICB-CNR Padua research site aimed at the “Characterization of thermal muds” of the Euganean thermal district. In October 2017 she started the PhD course in Molecular Sciences, curriculum Chemical Sciences, at the Chemistry Department of the University of Padua working on a project entitled “Aggregating proteins and their interaction with chemical chaperones” under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Ruzza (ICB-CNR). This work, which involved a close collaboration with the Diamond Light Source Ltd synchrotron facility (Didcot, U.K.) Beamline B23 for Circular Dichroism, was defended on March 24th 2021 in front of an international commission with the achievement of the title of Doctor Europaeus. Since September 2019 she holds a Research Grant within the AdriAquaNet Project, which is part of the EU Interreg V Italy-Croatia 2014-2020 Program. Within this context, the research activity has focused on the identification, synthesis and purification of peptide sequences with antimicrobial activity (antimicrobial peptides, AMPs) which allow to avoid the emergence of resistance to traditional antibiotics.

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• peptide synthesis and characterisation
• conformational characterisation of peptides and proteins
• interaction of small molecules with peptides or proteins
• circular dichroism
• synchrotron radiation circular dichroism

Publications

• Honisch C, Osto A, Dupay A, Vincenzi S, Ruzza P, Isolation of a tyrosinase inhibitor from Verjuice: a spectrophotometric study, Food Chemistry (2019) 305, 125506 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2019.125506
• Honisch C, Donadello V, Hussain R, Peterle D, De Filippis V, Arrigoni G, Gatto C, Giurgola L, Siligardi G and Ruzza P, Application of circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopies to assess photo-stability of water-soluble porcine lens proteins, ACS Omega (2020) 5(8), 4293-4301, doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b04234
• Honisch C, Hussain R, Siligardi G, Ruzza P, Influence of small molecules on the photo‐stability of water soluble porcine lens proteins. Chirality (2020) 1– 8. https://doi.org/10.1002/chir.23210
• Ruzza P, Honisch C, Hussain R, Siligardi G, Free radicals and ROS induce protein denaturation by UV photostability assay. International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2021) 22, 6512. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22126512
• Honisch C, Ragazzi E, Hussain R, Brazier J, Siligardi G, Ruzza P. Interaction of a Short Peptide with G-Quadruplex-Forming Sequences: An SRCD and CD Study. Pharmaceutics (2021) 13(8):1104. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13081104.

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Nuzzo G. graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Naples in July 2008 with 110 cum laude, with an experimental thesis in organic chemistry. She holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Salerno, focusing her research activity on the exploration of the chemical diversity of marine organisms. After PhD, she continued the research activity of biomolecules from marine organisms, focusing in the study of lipids and structure characterization of marine metabolites by both Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry. She carried out research in various projects aimed mainly at identifying active molecules for health from marine sources. She is member of a Spin-Off BioSearch S.r.l. with the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, ICB-CNR Institute and Italbiotech (Non-profit organization), whose goal is the discover of new natural compounds from marine organisms for nutraceutical and pharmaceutical purposes. As main research of interest she is currently working on the development of a marine natural compounds’ library for drug discovery, upgraded chromatographic techniques used for the purification of biomolecules, spectroscopic and advanced spectrometers methods for the chemical characterization and stereochemistry determination of natural products.

Skills Marine natural products
Drug disovery
Medicinal chemistry
Structure elucidation
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of organic compounds
Lipids Publications

1. Genoveffa Nuzzo, Carmela Gallo, Giuliana d’Ippolito, Emiliano Manzo, Nadia Ruocco, Ennio Russo, Ylenia Carotenuto, Maria Costantini, Valerio Zupo, Angela Sardo, Angelo Fontana. UPLC-MS/MS Identification of Sterol Sulfates in Marine Diatoms. Mar. Drugs 2019, 17, 10; doi:10.3390/md17010010. IF: 5.12;

2. Genoveffa Nuzzo, Bruno dA Gomes, Carmela Gallo, Pietro Amodeo, Clementina Sansone, Otilia DL Pessoa, Emiliano Manzo, Rosa Maria Vitale, Adrianna Ianora, Evelyne A Santos, Laticia V Costa-Lotufo, Angelo Fontana. Potent Cytotoxic Analogs of Amphidinolides from the Atlantic Octocoral Stragulum bicolor. Mar. Drugs 2019, 17, 58; doi:10.3390/md17010058. IF: 5.12;

3. Adele Cutignano, Genoveffa Nuzzo, Adrianna Ianora, Elvira Luongo, Giovanna Romano, Carmela Gallo, Clementina Sansone, Susanna Aprea, Francesca Mancini, Ugo D’Oro, Angelo Fontana. Development and Application of a Novel SPE-Method for Bioassay-Guided Fractionation of Marine Extracts. Mar. Drugs 2015, 13, 5736-5749. IF: 5.12;

4. Genoveffa Nuzzo, Carmela Gallo, Giuliana d’Ippolito, Adele Cutignano, Angela Sardo, Angelo Fontana. Composition and Quantitation of Microalgal Lipids by ERETIC 1H NMR Method. Mar. Drugs 2013, 11, 3742-3753. IF: 5.12;

5. Adele Cutignano, Genoveffa Nuzzo, Daniela D’Angelo, Eleonora Borbone, Alfredo Fusco, and Angelo Fontana. Mycalol: A Natural Lipid with Promising Cytotoxic Properties against Human Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Cells. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 9256 –9260. IF: 12.959.

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  nuzzo.genoveffa@icb.cnr.it

   PEC: genoveffa.nuzzo@pec.it

   (+39) 081-8675104/5181


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Dr. Piscitelli graduated in Chemistry at the University of Naples “Federico II” in 2006 and in 2008 she completed her master’s degree in Chemical Sciences. She received a PhD in Neurobiology at the University of Insubria in Busto Arsizio (VA) in January 2013. She also completed hes post-doc at the ICB-CNR in 2013. Since 2016 she has been a permanent researcher in the group of Dr. Di Marzo Vincenzo, coordinator of the Endocannabinoid Research Group and Canada Excellence Research Chair in the Microbiome-Endocannabinoidome Axis in Metabolic Health at Laval University, Quebec City. She is also very active in scientific dissemination and outreach activities for schools and / or for the general public. In this regard, since 2017 she has been organizing theoretical-practical schools of mass spectrometry with the support of the Mass Spectrometry Division of the Italian Chemical Society (DSM-SCI). She is also a member of the IUPAC Subcommitee on Publications and of the Editorial Board.

Skills Endocannabinoids Lipidomics Mass spectrometry Neuroscience Microbiome Publications

1. Bisogno T., Lauritano A., Piscitelli F. The Endocannabinoid System: A Bridge between Alzheimer’s Disease and Gut Microbiota. Life 2021, 11(9), 934; https://doi.org/10.3390/life11090934

2. Piscitelli F, Guida F, Luongo L, Iannotti FA, Boccella S, Verde R, Lauritano A, Imperatore R, Smoum R, Cristino L, Lichtman AH, Parker LA, Mechoulam R, Maione S, Di Marzo V. Protective Effects of N-Oleoylglycine in a Mouse Model of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2020;11(8):1117-1128. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.9b00633.
3. Piscitelli F, Coccurello R, Totaro A, Leuti A, Giacovazzo G, Verde R, Rossi E, Podaliri Vulpiani M, Ferri N, Giacominelli Stuffler R, Di Marzo V, Oddi S, Bisogno T, Maccarrone M. Targeted lipidomics investigation of N‐acylethanolamines in a transgenic mouse model of AD: a longitudinal study. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology. 2019 121: 1900015. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejlt.201900015

4. Donvito G, Piscitelli F, Muldoon P, Jackson A, Vitale RM, D’Aniello E, Giordano C, Ignatowska-Jankowska BM, Mustafa MA, Guida F, Petrie GN, Parker L, Smoum R, Sim-Selley L, Maione S, Lichtman AH, Damaj MI, Di Marzo V, Mechoulam R. N-Oleoyl-glycine reduces nicotine reward and withdrawal in mice. Neuropharmacology. 2019 148:320-331. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.03.020.

5. Piscitelli F, Pagano E, Lauritano A, Izzo AA, Di Marzo V. Development of a Rapid LC-MS/MS Method for the Quantification of Cannabidiol, Cannabidivarin, Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabivarin, and Cannabigerol in Mouse Peripheral Tissues. Anal Chem. 2017;89(8):4749-4755. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b01094.

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Dr. Vincenzo Zambrano, born in Sassari on September 13, 1972, obtained the high school degree at the “G.Spano” Scientific high school, Sassari, July 1991.

He graduated in Chemistry at the University of Sassari on 10 November 1997 with a final grades of 110/110 cum laude, discussing an experimental thesis entitled “Rhodium complexes with pyridines and 2,2 ‘- substituted bipyridines” , supervisor Prof. Giovanni Minghetti, co-supervisor Dr. Antonio Zucca.

He obtained the qualification to the profession of chemist in november 1997.

He received his PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Sassari on February 27, 2004, discussing an experimental thesis entitled “Variable synthesis of carbasugars and their analogues”, tutor Dr. Luigi Pinna, co-tutor Dr. Gloria Rassu.

Following a public competition he took up service at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry from 02/01/2008 with the qualification of Technologist.

Skills NMR (mono and 2D experiments)
Organic synthesis
Drug discovery
Homogeneous catalysis Publications

1. Zambrano Vincenzo; Rassu Gloria; Roggio Annamaria; Pinna Luigi; Zanardi Franca Curti Claudio; Casiraghi Giovanni; Battistini Lucia Asymmetric total synthesis of 1-deoxy-7,8-di-epi-castanospermine Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Volume 8, Issue 7, Pages 1725 – 1730 2010 – DOI 10.1039/b924721a
2. Curti Claudio; Rassu Gloria; Zambrano Vincenzo; Pinna Luigi; Pelosi Giorgio; Sartori Andrea; Battistini Lucia; Zanardi Franca; Casiraghi Giovanni Angewandte Chemie – International Edition Volume 51, Issue 25, Pages 6200 – 6204 2012 – DOI 10.1002/anie.201202027
3. Dell’Amico Luca; Rassu Gloria; Zambrano Vincenzo; Sartori Andrea; Curti Claudio; Battistini Lucia; Pelosi Giorgio; Casiraghi Giovanni; Zanardi Franca Journal of the American Chemical Society Volume 136, Issue 31, Pages 11107 – 11114 2014 – DOI 10.1021/ja5054576
4. Brindani Nicoletta; Rassu Gloria; Dell’Amico Luca; Zambrano Vincenzo; Pinna Luigi; Curti Claudio; Sartori Andrea; Battistini Lucia; Casiraghi Giovanni; Pelosi Giorgio; Greco Daniela; Zanardi Franca Angewandte Chemie – International Edition Volume 54, Issue 25, Pages 7386 – 73901 2015
5. Curti Claudio; Rassu Gloria; Lombardo Marco; Zambrano Vincenzo; Pinna Luigi; Battistini Lucia; Sartori Andrea; Pelosi Giorgio; Zanardi Franca Angewandte Chemie – International Edition Volume 59, Issue 45, Pages 20055 – 20064 2020

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Antonio Greco obtained a scientific high school diploma in Electronics and Telecommunications in 1995 followed by the professional qualification of “Web Developer” in 2007.

Since 2012 he has been an employee of the CNR, working at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, branch of Catania, where he has mainly been involeved to the design and graphical creation of brochures, posters, catalogs, leaflets, posters, roll-ups. Antonio has also been the referent in the structural and graphical design of web pages to support conferences, courses, research projects, publications and magazines acitivities whose aim to give visibility of the institute itself as well as the dissemination and advertising of events and activities developed among the four Institute’s branch. He has been responsible for the design, implementation and continuous updating of the website dedicated to the ICB branch of Catania and He is currently the referent in the ongoing renovation project of the single site of the Institute www.icb.cnr.it.

Moreover, at Catania’s brach, he lends support to the administrative activity by dealing with the management of the protocol activity; the administrative procedures for the disposal of special waste, the preparation of their related internal management regulations, the updating of the “loading and unloading” registers and the predisposition of its annual MUD report. Finally, he is the person in charge for the inventory as well as a treasurer of the financial fund of Catania’s branch; and he is also an instructor point for MEPA orders and technical assistant to the RUP in the preparation of purchases for the institute.

Skills Graphic design
Webmaster
Protocol
Website
Economic fund
Inventory
Disposal special waste Publications Contact    RESEARCH SITE OF CATANIA

   antonio.greco@icb.cnr.it – antonio.greco@cnr.it

   (+39) 095 7338351

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