Bruno Botta, Rector of UnitelmaSapienza University of Rome and Full Professor.

Prof. Bruno Botta is Rector of UnitelmaSapienza University of Rome from October 2023. Full Professor since 2001, he was Deputy Provost for the Internationalization at Sapienza University of Rome from November 2014 to October 2023 and Head of the Department of Chemistry and Technology of Drugs from 2011 to 2020. He was Chair of the COST Action CM-1407 "Challenging organic syntheses inspired by nature - from natural products chemistry to drug discovery" (2015-2019). From 2011 to 2023 Prof. Botta was Head of the Specialization School of Chemistry and Hazard identification, risk assessment and control. In 2009 he was cofounder of the University Spin-off named MoLiRom, which is specialized in the isolation of Natural Compounds derived from higher plants, in Protein Specialties and in making chiral chromatography stationary phases. His research interest includes: isolation, biotransformation and synthesis of biologically active compounds from medicinal plants; synthesis and host-guest studies of artificial receptors from the resorcarenes family, suitable for molecular recognition and drug delivery; discovery and development of organic molecules and natural compounds inhibiting the Hedgehog signaling pathway. He is co-author of more than 200 publications, 8 national and international patents and 6 book chapters and he is editor of 2 books.

bruno.botta@uniroma1.it

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