Francesco NICOTRA
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Francesco NICOTRA
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Francesco Nicotra is full professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Milano-Bicocca (since 2000), and member of the Government Board of the University (2013-2019). He is the Scientific Director of the Foundation CEN (European Centre of Nanomedicine, 2016-2019); has been Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (2019-2012) and Director of the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences (2001-2008) at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
International appointments: Nicotra has chaired (2006-2015) the Subcommittee of Biotechnology of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and has been elected next President (from 2017) of the IUPAC Division of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. He is also the Italian representative in the International Carbohydrate Organization (since 2002), and evaluator for many international agencies including ERC, FP and H2020.
Awards and Medals:
Award for innovation in research of the Italian Chemical Society, 2011
Medal Berti for Research in Carbohydrate Chemistry, 2012
Medal Quilico of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society, 2015
The scientific interests concern organic chemistry at the interface with biomedicine, in particular nanocarriers for therapy and diagnosis, a field in which he coordinates the H2020 MSCA-ITN-2014 project NABBA Design and development of advanced Nanomedicines to overcome Biological Barriers and to treat severe diseases, with 11 European partners. Further interests concern nanostructured biomaterials for regenerative medicine, a field in which he has coordinated a national MIUR, PRIN 2011 project, Innovative chemical methodologies for smart biomaterials, with 8 partners.
Bibliometric parameters: 194 publications on international scientific journals with IF, 18 chapter of books, 12 patents, h index 32 (Google Scholar), 29 (Scopus).
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