Serena has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Molecular recognition and chemical space navigation in drug discovery’. In her thesis she has developed a very successful fragment evolution platform and applied it to discover new BRD4 ligand scaffold. She also investigated the very interesting case of the hydrophobic waters hotspot, and the implication of this […]

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Serena’s project on Innovative therapy for skin-directed psoriasis, got awarded a Caixa impulse (VALIDATE) scholarship. Psoriasis is a chronic and painful skin disease. Current treatments targeting immune cells are very effective but, in the long term, can have adverse side effects, including immunosuppression and cancer. The project proposes an innovative treatment that targets at a […]

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Today, 11th of February we celebrate the day of women and girls in science. In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared the 11 February as the International […]

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From the 19th to the 21st of June the ISQBP President’s meeting 2018 was held in Barcelona.  The conference, which takes place every two years, is organized by the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology and has been acting as a meeting point for the scientists working on molecular simulations of biomolecular systems. Xavier Barril gave a […]

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By the end of May, Maciej Majewski, Serena Pittichio and Moira Rachman are going to participate in the 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures, which covers all aspects of cheminformatics and molecular modelling. Moira is going to present an oral communication entitled “Automated Fragment Evolution (FrEvolAted) Applied to Fragments Bound to NUDT2” and Maciej is […]

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