SA&SP
Scientific Advisors
Prof. Ben Philpot
Kenan Distinguished Professor
Associate Director of the UNC Neuroscience Center
UNC-Chapel Hill
Prof. Joost Gribnau
Head department Developmental
Biology Erasmus MC
Prof. Phil Avner
Former Director EMBL Rome and Institute Pasteur and EMBO Member
Dr. Paola Tognini
Lecturer at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Prof. Micthel Guttman
Professor, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech Associate Director, UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program (MD-PhD program); Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation
Prof. Michele Vendruscolo
Prof. Ben Philpot
Kenan Distinguished Professor Associate Director of the UNC Neuroscience Center
UNC-Chapel Hill
Prof. Joost Gribnau
Head department Developmental
Biology Erasmus MC
Prof. Phil Avner
Former Director EMBL Rome and Institute Pasteur and EMBO Member
Dr. Paola Tognini
Lecturer at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Prof. Mitchell Guttman
Professor, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech Associate Director, UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program (MD-PhD program); Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation
Prof. Michele Vendruscolo
Prof. of Biophysics at the University of Cambridge
Prof. Marnie Blewitt
Acting Deputy Director
Epigenetics and Development WHEI Australia
Dr. Irene Cantone
Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II
Kathrin Plath
Ph.D. Professor, Department Vice Chair, Biological Chemistry Professor, Biological Chemistry UCLA.
Prof. Maria Duca
Director of TNA research group Vice-President of the French Medicinal Chemistry Society. Université Côte d’Azur – CNRS. Nice, France.
Prof. Vittoria Raffa
Professor in Molecular Biology, Ph.D. in Nanotechnology, M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering. University of Pisa.
Prof. Marco Onorati
Associate Professor at the University of Pisa
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Scientific Partners
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Prof. Tiziano Tuccinardi
Medicinal Chemistry, University of Pisa.
His research interests include drug and lead discovery, with a focus on computer-assisted approaches and medicinal chemistry, including the synthesis of small molecules and virtual and biomolecular screening.
Dr. Giulio Poli
Medicinal Chemistry, University of Pisa. Development of efficient VS protocols and innovative computational procedures for the identification of hit/lead compounds of various protein targets, ligand binding mode prediction and energetic/mechanistic analyses, lead and hit-to-lead optimization studies.
Prof. Tommaso Pizzorusso
Full professor (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa). His long-term research focus is on understanding the functional basis of the formation and response of cortical circuits to pathology under normal conditions. To address these questions, he utilizes models of environmental factors (such as visual deprivation), genetic factors and vascular lesions. His approach combines electrophysiological and imaging techniques with molecular studies. His research group has longstanding expertise in investigating mouse models of human mutations associated with neurodevelopment, such as Rett and CDKL5 deficiency disorder.
Michael Sattler
Michael Sattler, trained in chemistry and NMR in Frankfurt and Abbott, pioneered structural
biology of proteins and RNAs in gene regulation and splicing at EMBL Heidelberg. Since 2007
at Helmholtz Munich and TUM, his lab applies integrative methods (NMR, cryo-EM) to study
non-coding RNAs, spliceosome assembly, and disease pathways, advancing structure-based
drug discovery.
