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Charlotte received an MSci in Natural Sciences (2013) from the University of Bath, UK. After graduating she relocated to Sweden for a two year graduate programme position at AstraZeneca. This experience sparked her passion for research and the development of new medicines. She had the opportunity to work on many different drug projects and with different teams in the Innovative Medicines department. She enjoyed working in an interdisciplinary environment which led her to pursue a PhD project in the field of Chemical Biology. Currently, she is working in Dr. Gonçalo Bernardes' lab in Lisbon. The focus of her PhD project will be to investigate novel ways of selectively inducing cancer cell death.
Friedrich is currently working on his PhD as part of the Becker group at the Institute of Biological Chemistry of the University of Vienna. Although an organic chemist by training, he has some experience in biochemistry as well.
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JOÃO FARIA NOGUEIRA João was born on November 24, 1990 in Leiria, Portugal. He received his Bachelor’s in Biology from Universidade de Évora, where he realised his passion lies within the medical research field. He took his MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Universidade Católica do Porto, where he developed skills in fields such as biomaterials, medical imaging, chemical engineering and medicinal nanotechnology. Naturally driven by the challenge, he seized the opportunity to study at University of Oxford to complete his MSc thesis where he did research work under the supervision of Prof. Ben Davis and Dr. Jürgen Schneider. There, he managed to successfully develop a contrast agent for MRI – a truly interdisciplinary project. At the moment, he is enrolling for an ITN Studentship to carry out research within the Chudasama group on protein modification using pyridazinediones, at University College London. Project Title:
Maksymilian graduated from the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) with a Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2016. During both his BSc and MSc studies, he specialized in synthetic organic chemistry. He participated in the Erasmus programme in the framework of which he spent five months at the Åbo Akademi (Turku, Finland) and two and a half months at the University of Parma (Parma, Italy). Since 2016 he is a PhD student in the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany). Project Title:
Marco Lucchino graduated in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies at the University of Turin, Italy - Department of Drug Science and Pharmaceutical Technology in March 2015. As a student, he was member of the group of Professor Kamyar Afarinkia at the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics in Bradford, UK, for six months in 2014, where he was involved in the synthesis of Sterol-like fluorescent probes that have been used as preliminary tool to investigate the role of phytosterols as chemopreventative agents. For a total of six months between 2013 and 2014, he was a trainee, in a Pharmacy where he was involved in preparing galenic forms, in part of the laboratory management and in dispensation of medicine. In April 2015, as winner of Erasmus Traineeship scholarship, he joined Dr. Didier Desmaele’s team at the University of Paris Sud – Institut Galien - UMR CNRS 8612 directed by Professor Patrick Couvreur, where he worked as trainee for three months on a project focused on the synthesis of Squalene-Cisplatin conjugates that have been used to prepare nanoparticles as drug delivery system. Project Title:
Padma is a holder of Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and Master’s Degree in Biochemistry from India. During her masters she worked extensively on antimicrobial peptide mimetic and bactericidal polymer coatings. During her work she also focus of polymer based gene delivery system, which in turn triggered her interest towards Antibody drug conjugates. Currently, she is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Gonçalo Bernardes where she is working on Development of Antibody-Drug Conjugates for the Treatment of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Project Title:
I was born in Napoli in 1991, where I lived, apart from a year in the United States as an exchange student, until I finished high school. I studied chemistry at the University of Bologna, earning a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Materials’ Chemistry magna cum laudae. After finishing my bachelors’ degree I moved to Milano to complete my studies, where I obtained a master’s degree magna cum laudae in Chemical Science at the University of Milano, with a thesis on “Synthesis of amphiphilic glycodendrimers with a rod-like core as potent antagonists of DC-SIGN” under the supervision of prof. Anna Bernardi. In April 2016 I joined the University of Lisboa as a PhD student in the research group of dr. Pedro Gois with the co-supervision of dr. Gonçalo Bernardes, working on the project “Design and synthesis of biocompatible molecular handles for boronic acids conjugation”. Project Title:
Silvia was born in 1988 in Italy. She graduated in chemistry at the University of Pisa and
obtained her MS degree in organic chemistry at the Scuola di Science, University of Bologna. Project Title:
Tuuli Hakala did her Bachelor’s and Master’s studies in biomedical engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. During her studies she focused on biophysics and micro and nanotechnology. Tuuli got involved in research during her second year of bachelor studies and joined Pofessor Paavo Kinnunen’s Helsinki Biophysics and Biomembrane Group (HBBG) in the Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University. During her time in HBBG she studied lipid-protein interactions and properties of model bilayers. In fall 2013 she visited the Quake Group in Stanford for three months, and received good basic understanding and know-how on microfluidics, which she has applied in her later research. After finishing her studies in April 2016 she joined Professor Sami Franssila’s Microfabrication Group and examined the hydrophobic recovery of PDMS and capillary filling. Currently Tuuli is a PhD student at the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge and is supervised by Professor Tuomas Knowles and Dr Gonçalo Bernardes. Project Title:
I studied chemistry at the University of Florence, where I obtained both the Bachelor degree in Chemistry and the Master degree in Organic Chemistry. As an undergraduate student, I worked in the group of Prof. A. Goti and Prof. F.Cardona, where I also performed my Master thesis. I worked on Organic Chemistry applied to the synthesis of biologically interesting compounds, and thanks to the collaboration with Prof. Paoli at the Department of Biochemistry, I gained expertise in biochemical and enzymatic assays. At the end of the academic studies, I obtained a research grant from AIRC which allowed me to work in the group of Prof. C. Nativi (University of Florence), where I worked on carbohydrate and peptide chemistry. Project Title:
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