Prof. Francesco Peri
Principal Investigator
Organisation/Intitute: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Email: francesco.peri@unimib.it
Supervisor of ESR 6
Francesco Peri is Full Professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca. Prof. Peri also has a permanent professorship at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon (France) where he teaches a course of Medicinal Chemistry (Master’s level). Prof. Peri’s research interests in the field of drug development include small molecular TLR4 modulators, new leads to treat heart failure and new methods for synthesis of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). He has published 105 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, totalling over 3150 citations, H-index of 33 (21 since 2014) and an i10-index of 71. Prof. Peri has filed 10 international patents so far and has led the foundation of University for Innovation (U4i, http://www.u4i.it/), an initiative that facilitates the licensing of inventions and scientific innovations. Between 2015 and 2018, he coordinated the H2020-funded MSCA-ETN project TOLLerant (“Toll-Like Receptor 4 activation and function in diseases: an integrated chemical-biology approach”, GA number 642157).