Andrea Cavalli's Biography

Andrea Cavalli, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge

Andrea Cavalli is Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Bologna and Head of Computational Chemistry and Structural Biophysics at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa. Prof. Cavalli received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Bologna and did postdoctoral work at the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste (Italy) and ETH, Zurich (Switzerland). He is an author of about 120 scientific articles in high ranked journals and inventor in several international patents. He is member of the Editorial Board of three international journals. Prof. Cavalli has delivered more than 40 invited lectures and seminars at international congresses and prestigious institutions. His research interests are in the field of computational drug discovery. In 2003, he was awarded the “Farmindustria Prize for Pharmaceutical Research”.