Angela Casini

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Angela Casini
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.

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Early life and education

[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]

Research and career

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.

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include;

Selected publications

Her publications include;

Casini serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry and the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Gabbiani, Chiara; Casini, Angela; Messori, Luigi (2007-03-01). "Gold(III) compounds as anticancer drugs". Gold Bulletin. 40 (1): 73–81. doi: 10.1007/BF03215296 . ISSN   2190-7579.
  2. Medicinal, Professor Angela Casini Chair of; Chemistry, Bioinorganic. "Professor Angela Casini - People". Cardiff University. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  3. Casini, Angela; Woods, Benjamin; Wenzel, Margot (2017-12-18). "The Promise of Self-Assembled 3D Supramolecular Coordination Complexes for Biomedical Applications". Inorganic Chemistry. 56 (24): 14715–14729. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02599 . ISSN   0020-1669. PMID   29172467.
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