Private AreaLuigi Calzolai
Joint Research Center of the European Commission (Ispra, Italy)
Dr. Calzolai has a MS (University of Florence) and PhD (University of Siena) in chemistry. After a Postgraduate Research at the University of California, Davis, he joined, in 1998, the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, in the laboratory of the then Nobel laureate Kurth Wuthrich, where he determined the three dimensional structure of prion proteins responsible of neurological disorders, such as Mad Cow Disease. In 2007, he moved to the University of Kent (UK) as Senior Lecturer in biochemistry. In 2008, he joined the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission where his research focuses on the development of methods for the characterization of nanomedicines (in particular RNAbased) and biotherapeutics. He is an expert in the European Pharmacopeia working group on mRNA vaccines.
References
| University: | Joint Research Center of the European Commission |
| Country: | Italy |
A NANO-theranostic tool TO prevent mechanosensing-dependent pro-fibrotic evolution and failure of the HEART