
Assunta Giordano
Experience & Activities
• 1995 Degree in Chemistry at the University of Salerno. Vote 110/110 cum laude.
• Qualification to practice as a freelance chemist ( 1995).
• 1999: PhD in Chemistry at the University of Salerno with the thesis “Structural and synthetic studies on janulosimide, a marine peptidic toxin”.
• 1/11/1999 – 31/10/2001 Post-doctoral research fellowship position on: “Synthesis of biologically active natural producs” at the Department of Organic Chemistry-University of Salerno.
• 27/12/2001 to date: researcher at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
• 10/2006-03/2007 Visiting Researcher at the Division of Molecular Biosciences- Faculty of Natural Sciences- Imperial College London (UK) in the laboratory of prof. Ann Dell
• Qualification as Associate Professor in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical, Toxicological and Nutraceutical Technologies (2014)
Drug discovery
Anticancer agents
Anti-inflammatory drugs,
Biocatalysis
- Identification and Development of BRD9 Chemical Probes. Colarusso E.; Chini M.G; Bifulco G.; Lauro G.; Giordano A. Pharmaceuticals 2024, 17, 392. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph17030392
- Identification of the 2-benzoxazol-2-yl-phenol scaffold as new hit for JMJD3 inhibition. Giordano A., Forte G., Terracciano S., Russo A., Sala M., Scala M. C., Johansson C., Oppermann U., Riccio, R., Bruno I., Di Micco S. ACS Med Chem Lett 2019, 10, 601-605. DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00589
- Discovery of new erbB4 inhibitors: repositioning an orphan chemical library by inverse virtual screening. Giordano A., Forte G., Massimo L., Riccio R., Bifulco G., Di Micco S. Eur J Med Chem 2018, 152, 253-263. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.04.018
- Abu-Qarn; Y. Sophie; A. Giordano; A. Trauner; H.R. Morris; P. Hitchen; O. Medalia; A. Dell; J. Eichler. Haloferax volcanii AglB and AglD are involved in N-glycosylation of the S-layer glycoprotein and proper assembly of the surface layer. Journal of Molecular Biology 2007, 374, 1224-1236. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.10.042
- Giordano A., Vella F.M., Romano I., Gambacorta A. Structural elucidation of a novel phosphoglycolipid isolated from six species of Halomonas genus. J. Lip. Res. 2007, 48 (8), 1825-1831. DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M700152-JLR200.
MAIN RESEARCH SITE, POZZUOLI (NA)
agiordano@icb.cnr.it
agiordano@icmib.na.cnr.it
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ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8139-407X
Scopus:
Author ID: 35617957500