Staff Profile
Dr Cinzia Bordoni
Research Associate
- Email: cinzia.bordoni@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 74623 44582
- Address: Northern Institute for Cancer Research (NICR)
Medicinal Chemistry Laboratories
School of Chemistry
Bedson Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
I graduated in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Rome – La Sapienza in 2013 with a thesis about the computer-aided-design and synthesis of novel compounds in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in Professor Romano Silvestri research group. Then, I worked as regulatory affairs and computer system validation junior consultant for different bio-pharma companies. I moved to Cardiff in 2013 to undertake a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry with Professor Andrea Brancale on the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel inhibitors of a protein-protein interaction involved in the metastatic progression of breast cancer. Then, in 2016 I joined Professor Andrew Westwell research group at Cardiff University as a Research Associate working on the in silico design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel anti-metastatic compounds. I have now joined the Northern Institute of Cancer Research as a Research Associate in medicinal chemistry.
Area of expertise
- Medicinal chemistry
Research
Drug design and development
Structure-based drug design
Hit to lead optimisation
Microwave enhanced synthesis
Computational chemistry
In vitro cell based assays