JPIAMR 14th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Fondazione Istituto Insubrico Ricerca per la Vita
• Country: Italy (IT)

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Improvement of drug/plant protection agent efficacy and/or specificity through chemical modifications (including hit to lead optimisation)
  2. Design and implementation of innovative tools, including novel chemistry and/or new materials for improved application, efficacy and delivery of antimicrobials
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

• Type of studies/experimental approaches:

  in silico, in vitro, in vivo preclinical and clinical studies in human and in all veterinary settings

• Keywords:

  natural products; drug discovery; strain collection; microbial extracts; fermentation

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  FIIRV is a nonprofit foundation established in 2007 to promote and develop discovery research projects. Assets include a large, diversified collection of 18,800 microbial strains, a collection of 39,000 microbial extracts, and a chemical library of 9.500 pure compounds. Facilities comprise microorganism isolation/cultivation laboratories and fermentation/downstream equipment from flask level to a pilot plant up to 200-lt fermenters. Lab-scale equipment for extraction, purification and analytical chemistry lab for structural characterization of molecules with HPLC/MS-MS and fraction collectors. Microbiology, cell and biochemistry laboratories are specialized in HTS, determination of antimicrobial properties and toxicity studies.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Medicinal chemistry programs, optimization by semi-synthesis or chemical modifications of FIIRV novel natural compounds exhibiting promising antimicrobial properties.

GIACOMO CARENZI

• Organisation: Fondazione Istituto Insubrico Ricerca per la Vita
• Position: Head, Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry Lab
• E-mail: giacomocarenzi@ricercaperlavita.it
• Phone: 0296474261
• Web: www.ricercaperlavita.it