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Paola Ciapetti, 39, Ph.D., Head of Medicinal Chemistry
Paola Ciapetti joined Novalyst in 2008 to head the medicinal chemistry department and is responsible for medicinal chemistry programs supervision and client relationship management.
She completed her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at University of Florence (1997, Italy) under the supervision of Professor M. Taddei and started her professional career as visiting scientist at Eli Lilly (Indianapolis, USA) where she worked for two years in the CNS department on iGluR5 receptor antagonists. Subsequently she went to Albany Molecular Research as Senior Research Scientist to work on TGF-ß inhibitors. In late 2001, she joined Prestwick Chemical (Strasbourg, France) to launch the medicinal chemistry department. Under her tenure she made an essential contribution for the successful completion of two preclinical programs in oncology and in antibiotics. Dr Ciapetti is co-author of 9 peer-reviewed papers, co-inventor of 11 patents and is also contributive author to the following books "Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II (2006, Elsevier)" and "The Practice of Medicinal Chemistry (3rd Edition, by C. G. Wermuth, 2008, Elsevier)".
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