The event will occur in December 12 and 14. Applications may be made at the postgraduate level.
Professor Claudiu Supuran
In 2013 he was rated as the most cited scientists in Pharmacology & Toxicology by LabTimes.
Professor Supuran is a professor of medicinal chemistry at the Neurofarba Department, Section of Pharmaceutical and Nutriceutical Sciences, University of Florence, Italy. His main research interest is on enzyme inhibitors, and especially carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, of which he discovered several new classes in recent years.
One of the sulfonamides discovered in his group entered Phase I clinical trials in 2014 for the treatment of advanced, metastatic solid tumors (being actually in Phase Ib). He is Editor-in-Chief of Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, Current Enzyme Inhibition.
For the last 25 years the main interest of his research was focused on carbonic anhydrases and their modulators of activity. He has published more than 1350 papers, his Hirsch factor is h = 110 and the number of citations since 1995 is greater than 50100.
