Maria Paola Costi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Biography
Maria Paola Costi has completed her Ph.D Medicinal chemistry in 1989 from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and visiting scientist at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Life Science at Unimore. She has published more than 85 papers in international journals, many patents and serving as an editorial board member of a few journals in the field. Board member of translational science in oncology group of the MITO network and WG leader of drug discovery and development of EUTROC. Coordinator/scientific responsible of some FP European projects in the area of drug discovery in cancer and parasitic diseases (www.lights.eu, www.optobacteria.eu, www.nmtrypi.eu).