
Angelo Fontana
Experience & Activities
Director of the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry
Angelo Fontana (ORCID N. 0000-0002-5453-461X; WOS Researcher ID C-3354-2012) is Director of the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB) of the National Research Council (CNR) and Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Biology of the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is the coordinator of the group of Bio-Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology whose research is aimed at the development of new therapeutic principles from small marine natural molecules and implementation of biotechnological processes and functional products from marine organisms. For these studies he has received numerous national and international funding. In 2016 he founded BioSEArch SRL, an advanced biotechnology start-up company for the development of natural products in medicine, functional foods and cosmetics. He is a permanent member of the international scientific committees for the “Marine Natural Products Symposium” and “European Conference on Marine Natural Products”, and in 2009 he was awarded the Apivita Award from the Phytochemistry Society of Europe for his contribution in the field of natural products.
Biosynthesis of natural products and chemical studies of metabolism and cellular processes
Functional applications and chemical biology of lipids and secondary metabolites
Chemical communication mediated by small molecules
Identification and mechanism of action of bioactive compounds
Drug discovery and proof-of-concept of new pharmaceutical compounds (in particular antitumor and immunomodulating compounds)
Implementation of biotechnological processes and functional products
Chromatography
Spectroscopy
Synthesis
NMR and MS
Synthetic biology
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