Prof. Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee
23th March 2023, 13:30 (CET)
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Biography
Alessio Ciulli holds the Personal Chair of Chemical Structural Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. He is the scientific founder of Amphista therapeutics, a biotech company spin-out of his Dundee laboratory that develops new protein degradation platforms. He is also the Founder and Director of Dundee’s new Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation, a new translational chemical biology center for innovating discoveries and next-generation therapeutics in the TPD field. Research in his laboratory focuses on developing small molecules inducing protein degradation and targeting protein-protein interactions. Ciulli’s lab has made crucial contributions in the TPD field, including the development of the VHL E3 ligase ligands and solving the first crystal structure of a PROTAC ternary complex.