Paola Bisignano Postdoctoral researcher Cardiovascular Research Institute University of California in San Francisco 555 Mission Bay Blvd South, MC 3122 San Francisco, CA 94143
[email protected] EDUCATION 2010 – 2013 PhD, Drug Discovery, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. 2006 – 2008 MSc, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy, magna cum laude. 2001 – 2005 BSc, Biological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy, magna cum laude. POSITIONS 2015 – present Postdoctoral research, University of California, San Francisco Advisor: Michael Grabe, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Pharmaceutical Chemistry • structure-based drug design for sodium glucose symporters • homology modelling, molecular dynamics simulation, Markov State Modelling 2014 – 2015 Postdoctoral research, Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York Advisor: Marta Filizola, Structural and Chemical Biology • structure-based and ligand-based drug design for GPCR • virtual screening, chemoinformatics. 2013 Temporary research, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy Advisor: Andrea Cavalli, Drug Discovery and Development • in silico multi-target in Alzheimer’s disease • virtual screening, free energy calculations RESEARCH TRAINING 2012 – 2013 Visiting PhD student, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain Advisor: Gianni de Fabritiis, Multiscale Laboratory • free energy of protein ligand binding on pharmaceutically relevant targets • molecular dynamics simulation, Markov