Medicinal Chemistry

Michele Mari

Michele Mari
Department of Biomolecular Sciences
University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Biography

Michele Mari is a Postdoctoral Scientist in Medicinal Chemistry at University of Urbino Carlo Bo, He achieved his Ph.D. in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences from the same university working on the strategic indole functionalization for the synthesis of tryptophan containing alkaloids and biologically active tryptamines. He spent 9 months at ETH Zurich as visiting researcher working on the total synthesis of proteins. In September 2017 he founded GLUOS (innovative Start up and University Spin off on the synthesis of molecules for medical devices) with some colleagues and he is actually the President of the Board of Directors of the company. He is also member of the organizing committee of the European School of Medicinal Chemistry.

Research Interest

Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Melatonin Receptor Ligands, Heterocycles, Indole and Indole synthesis and reactivity, total
synthesis of indole-containing alkaloids, dehydroalanine reactivity, aminoacids, peptides and protein chemistry, Glutathione and Glutathione
modification. HPLC MS analysis of natural extracts.