Angela Casini Explained

Angela Casini
Alma Mater:	University of Florence
Workplaces:	Technical University of Munich University of Groningen
Awards:	European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

Angela Casini is a medicinal and inorganic chemist who works on metal-based compounds as therapeutic agents. She was awarded the 2012 European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry and made the 2019 American Chemical Society Inorganic Lecturer.

Early life and education

^[1] She earned her PhD in chemical sciences at the University of Florence in 2004.^[2] She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pisa, where she worked on the mechanisms by which metal-complexes that are used as anti-cancer agents activate. She used both spectroscopy, including mass spectrometry imaging, and molecular biology.

Research and career

Angela Casini joined the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as a Principal Investigator in 2008.^[3] She moved to the University of Groningen in 2011, where she was made a Rosalind Franklin Fellow.^[4] She was made a Chair of Medicinal Chemistry at Cardiff University in 2015, and has served as Director of Postgraduate Teaching from 2018.^[5] She spent 2016 as a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich.

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include;

2012 European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry^[6]
2014 Gordon Research Conference Early Career Investigator^[7]
2014 Thomson Reuters World's Most Influential Scientific Mind^[8]
2016 Elected to the Young Academy of Europe^[9]
2018 Burghausen Diamond of Chemistry Award^[10] ^[11]
2019 American Chemical Society Inorganic Lectureship Award^[12] ^[13]

Selected publications

Her publications include;

Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors. Casini. Angela. 2003. Medicinal Research Reviews. 23. 2. 146–189. 10.1002/med.10025. 12500287. 90349277. free.
Hypoxia activates the capacity of tumor‐associated carbonic anhydrase IX to acidify extracellular pH. Casini. Angela. 2004. FEBS Letters. 577. 3. 439–445. 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.10.043. 15556624. 37646843. free.
Unexpected nanomolar inhibition of carbonic anhydrase by COX-2-selective celecoxib: new pharmacological opportunities due to related binding site recognition. Casini. Angela. 2004. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 47. 3. 550–557. 10.1021/jm030912m. 14736236.

Casini serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry and the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.

References

Gabbiani. Chiara. Casini. Angela. Messori. Luigi. 2007-03-01. Gold(III) compounds as anticancer drugs. Gold Bulletin. en. 40. 1. 73–81. 10.1007/BF03215296. 2190-7579. free.
Web site: Professor Angela Casini - People. Medicinal. Professor Angela Casini Chair of. Chemistry. Bioinorganic. Cardiff University. en. 2019-08-26.
Casini. Angela. Woods. Benjamin. Wenzel. Margot. 2017-12-18. The Promise of Self-Assembled 3D Supramolecular Coordination Complexes for Biomedical Applications. Inorganic Chemistry. en. 56. 24. 14715–14729. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02599. 29172467. 0020-1669. free.
Web site: Institute for Advanced Study (IAS): Casini, Angela. www.ias.tum.de. 2019-08-26.
Web site: The School of Chemistry welcomes new staff member Professor Angela Casini. Cardiff University. en. 2019-08-26.
Web site: EuroBIC. www.bioinorganic-chemistry.org. 2019-08-26.
Web site: 2014 Metals in Medicine Conference GRC. www.grc.org. 2019-08-26.
Web site: Angela Casini. metallomics2017.univie.ac.at. en. 2019-08-26.
Web site: Angela Casini – Young Academy of Europe. 18 December 2016 . en-US. 2019-08-26.
Web site: Burghausen Chemistry Award for Angela Casini. www.tum.de. en. 2019-08-26.
Web site: Burghausen Chemistry Award for Angela Casini. www.tum.de. en. 2019-08-26.
Web site: Angela Casini Receives 2019 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award. 2019-03-12. ACS Axial. en-US. 2019-08-26.
Web site: Prof Angela Casini wins 2019 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award. Medicinal. Professor Angela Casini Chair of. Chemistry. Bioinorganic. Cardiff University. en. 2019-08-26. PGT. Director of.