Angela Casini | |
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Alma mater | University of Florence |
Awards | European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Technical University of Munich University of Groningen |
Angela Casini is a medicinal and inorganic chemist who works on metal-based compounds as therapeutic agents. She was awarded the 2012 European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry and made the 2019 American Chemical Society Inorganic Lecturer.
[1] She earned her PhD in chemical sciences at the University of Florence in 2004.[2] She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pisa, where she worked on the mechanisms by which metal-complexes that are used as anti-cancer agents activate.[1] She used both spectroscopy, including mass spectrometry imaging, and molecular biology.[1]
Angela Casini joined the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as a Principal Investigator in 2008.[3] She moved to the University of Groningen in 2011, where she was made a Rosalind Franklin Fellow.[4] She was made a Chair of Medicinal Chemistry at Cardiff University in 2015, and has served as Director of Postgraduate Teaching from 2018.[5] She spent 2016 as a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich.
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Casini serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry and the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.