PhD student Francesca Caricchio delivered an oral communication entitled “Antioxidant properties and wound healing potential of glycosaminoglycan-like polysaccharides from Rhizostoma pulmo” at the conference Novel Approaches for Skin Health, held in Ferrara (Italy) on June 10, 2025.
PhD student Cheherazade Trouki presented an oral communication entitled “Translating soft science into hard impact: toward a scalable, bioartificial cardiac patch” at GreenChemCo 2025 – Green Chemistry and Sustainable Coatings, held in Pisa (Italy) from June 16 to 18, 2025.
PhD student Lorenzo Chiaverini presented an oral communication entitled “LC-based metallomics and TEM reveal gold nanoparticles surface treatment with vicinal dithiols to abolish protein corona formation” at ISABC17, held in Uppsala (Sweden) from June 14 to 18, 2025.
Bianca Laura Bernardoni is the first author of a recent publication in the journal Molecular Diversity titled “A scaffold repositioning approach: dihydroBenzolImidazoTriazineDione (BITD) derivatives as selective ALDH1A1 inhibitors.”In this work, a novel class of ALDH1A1 inhibitors was developed through a scaffold repositioning strategy, identifying dihydroBenzolImidazoTriazineDione (BITD) derivatives as promising selective…
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Giulia Galgani for her publication entitled “In Vitro Models of Diabetes: Focus on Diabetic Retinopathy” on Cells. Diabetic retinopathy is a major eye complication in patients with diabetes mellitus, which causes endothelial damage and vascular lesions, leading to ischemic conditions in certain areas of the…
PhD student Cheherazade Trouki presented an oral communication entitled “Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Investigate Drug Delivery by Functionalized Nanoparticle” at Future Materials 2024 – The 5th International Conference on Materials Science and Nanotechnology, held in Athens (Greece) from October 21 to 25, 2024.
PhD student Luca Varricchio presented an oral communication entitled “A new application of Saturated-absorption CAavity Ring-down (SCAR) laser spectroscopy to evaluate the inhibition of the G6PD enzyme by ¹⁴C-radiolabeling” at the CNR-INO Annual Symposium, held in Florence (Italy) from November 27 to 29, 2024.
PhD student Bianca Laura Bernardoni has published a first-author article entitled “The challenging inhibition of Aldose Reductase for the treatment of diabetic complications: a 2019–2023 update of the patent literature” in Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents. The work reviews recent patents (2019–2023) on aldose reductase (AKR1B1) inhibitors, a key target…
PhD student Cheherazade Trouki presented an oral communication entitled “Development and Characterization of Multilayered Patches for Treating Acute and Chronic Myocardial Infarction” at the Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Biomaterials, held in Faenza (Italy) from July 8 to 10, 2024.
Salvatore Galati, a recent PhD graduate from our doctoral school, along with his team, has recently received the second prize for the presentation of the business idea MolBookPRO in the ContaminationLab contest. For more info click on the following link: https://www.unipi.it/index.php/news/item/28451-sette-idee-finaliste-per-la-giornata-conclusiva-del-contamination-lab-dell-universita-di-pisa
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