!!Francesca Cutruzzolà - Biography
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Francesca Cutruzzolà graduated in Biological Sciences in 1986 at Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy), summa cum laude. \\
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She obtained the PhD in Biochemistry in 1991, working on myoglobin engineering at Sapienza University under the supervision of Maurizio Brunori and at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) with Stephen Sligar. During the PhD she pioneered protein engineering, a milestone in protein chemistry, to produce milligrams of proteins and to modify them to capture the important features of their structure and function.\\
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As a post-doctoral fellow, she worked at the ETH (Zurich, CH) (1991), the University of California Davis (USA) (1992) (as EMBO and NATO fellow, respectively) and at the University of Leiden (NL). She focused on hemeprotein structure and engineering and their reactivity towards gaseous ligands. She provided the first demonstration that gaseous NO can dissociate rapidly from heme groups containing chemical modifications, a finding of physiological relevance.\\
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From 1994 she was appointed Assistant and then Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy).  From December 2011, she is full professor of Molecular Biology and from 2019 the Head of the PhD School in Life Sciences at the same University.\\
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Her recent interests are focused on the mechanisms of metabolic reprogramming in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. She has contributed to the advancement of knowledge in this area both formulating new paradigms and by identifying new molecules and functions. For her research she was selected among the 3 best groups in the European Life Sciences Awards (2012). She collaborates with European and international groups, mainly in the UK, Germany, Israel, Hungary, USA. She has been invited to present her work in over 30 national and international meetings. She has received grants to support her research from national (such as Ministry of Research and Ministry of Health of Italy, AIRC, FFC, Institute Pasteur) and European agencies (Horizon 2020 program). Her current teaching activities are in the field of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Bachelor, Master and PhD programs both at Sapienza University (Biochemistry, Advanced Molecular Biology, Protein Engineering) and in the CIVIS Network of European Universities (Currently active Blended Intensive Programs "Molecular scale Biophysics" and "Non-coding RNAs in Health and Disease").\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit fcutruzzola}][{ALLOW upload fcutruzzola}][{ALLOW comment All}]