Fabrizio Chiti#
| Membership Number: | 4000 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fabriziochiti.it |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010,12 - present, Full Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biomedical Experimental and Clinical Sciences, Section of Biochemistry, University of Florence (Italy)
- 2002,11 – 2010,12, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, University of Florence (Italy)
- 2002,02 - 2002,10, Post-doc in the laboratory of Prof. C. M. Dobson, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (UK)
- 2000,02 - 2002,01, Post-doc in the laboratory of Prof. G. Ramponi, Department of Biochemistry, University of Florence (Italy)
- 1996,10 - 2000,01, Ph.D. student in the laboratory of the Prof. C. M. Dobson, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford (UK)
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein folding
- Protein misfolding, protein aggregation, amyloid fibril formation
- Study, at a molecular level, of the process by which native proteins convert into aggregation-prone partially folded states
- Study, in molecular depth, of the conversion of partially folded states of proteins into amyloid fibrils and precursor oligomers
- Relationship between structure and toxicity of protein oligomers in cellular and animal models
- Investigation of molecular chaperones as inhibitors of the toxicity of protein oligomers
- Study, at a molecular level, of the process of native-like aggregation
- Effect of membrane lipids, such as the GM1 ganglioside, on protein aggregation and associated toxicity
- Effect of extracellular agents, such as glycosamynoglycans, on protein aggregation and associated toxicity
- Editing of mathematical algorithms able to predict fundamental aspects of protein aggregation in vitro and in vivo
Honours and Awards
- 24/06/2010, “Roncaglia-Mari” Award for the year 2010 as a main contributor in Science (the Award was presented by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano)
- 12/10/2005, Membership to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme for years 2006-2008.
- 27/10/2003, "Jean-Francois LeFèvre Lecture" at the Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg (ESBS)
- 23/09/2000, Gold Medal from the Italian Society of Biochemistry as author of the most significant poster presented at the 45th Congress of the Italian Society of Biochemistry
- 13/09/1999, Prize from the publishing company McGraw-Hill at the 44th Congress of the Italian Society of Biochemistry as “author of a significant paper published from 1998 to 1999”
- 01/02/2000, Research Fellowship from the Italian Telethon Foundation (no. 453.bi)
- 01/02/1999, “Giuseppe Guelfi” Training Fellowship (Borsa di Perfezionamento) from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (no. 33/cc)
- 7/10/1996, “Marie Curie” Fellowship from the European Commission (no. BI04CT965113)
