Angela Casini is a medicinal and inorganic chemist who works on metal-based compounds as therapeutic agents. She was awarded the 2012

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and made the 2019

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Inorganic Lecturer.

Early life and education

She earned her PhD in chemical sciences at the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

in 2004. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the

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, where she worked on the mechanisms by which metal-complexes that are used as anti-cancer agents activate. She used both spectroscopy, including mass spectrometry imaging, and molecular biology.

Research and career

Angela Casini joined the

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as a Principal Investigator in 2008. She moved to the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

in 2011, where she was made a Rosalind Franklin Fellow. She was made a Chair of Medicinal Chemistry at Cardiff University in 2015, and has served as Director of Postgraduate Teaching from 2018. She spent 2016 as a Visiting Professor at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include; * 2012

* 2014 Gordon Research Conference Early Career Investigator * 2014

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World's Most Influential Scientific Mind * 2016 Elected to the

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* 2018 Burghausen Diamond of Chemistry Award * 2019

Inorganic Lectureship Award

Selected publications

Her publications include; * * * Casini serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry and the

Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry The ''Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the inorganic aspects of biochemistry, such as metalloenzymes and metallobiomolecules. The journal was established in 1971 as ''Bioinor ...

References

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