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Medicinal and inorganic chemist
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.
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.
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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 .
References
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c 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 .
^ Medicinal, Professor Angela Casini Chair of; Chemistry, Bioinorganic.
"Professor Angela Casini - People" . Cardiff University . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
^ 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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"Institute for Advanced Study (IAS): Casini, Angela" . www.ias.tum.de . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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"The School of Chemistry welcomes new staff member Professor Angela Casini" . Cardiff University . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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"EuroBIC" . www.bioinorganic-chemistry.org . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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"2014 Metals in Medicine Conference GRC" . www.grc.org . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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"Angela Casini" . metallomics2017.univie.ac.at . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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"Angela Casini – Young Academy of Europe" . 18 December 2016. Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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"Burghausen Chemistry Award for Angela Casini" . www.tum.de . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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"Burghausen Chemistry Award for Angela Casini" . www.tum.de . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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"Angela Casini Receives 2019 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award" . ACS Axial . 2019-03-12. Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
^ Medicinal, Professor Angela Casini Chair of; Chemistry, Bioinorganic; PGT, Director of.
"Prof Angela Casini wins 2019 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award" . Cardiff University . Retrieved 2019-08-26 .
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