Email: cristina.nativi@unifi.it
Website: https://sites.google.com/unifi.it/glycomore/
Biographical sketch
Cristina Nativi graduated in chemistry (magna cum laude) at the University of Florence, Italy. Awarded with a grant from the Fond National Suisse, from 1987 to 1989 she worked as research fellow on “naked sugar” in the group of professor Pierre Vogel, at the University of Lausanne (CH). In 1991 she became assistant professor at the University of Florence and in 1993, awarded with a CNR-NATO grant, she moved to the Université de Montrèal (CDN) to study new glycosylation methods in the group of professor Stephen Hanessian. In 2000 she became associate professor at the University of Florence, where since Feb. 2005, she is full professor of organic chemistry. She is co-authors of more than 180 papers, 5 book chapters and 5 licenced patents.
- Member of the teaching board of the International PhD School of the University of Florence on Structural Biology;
- Member of the scientific committee of the start-up GiottoBiotech;
- Chair of the Italian Interdivisional Group of Carbohydrate of the Italian Society of Chemistry;
- Chair of the organizing committee of the National Meeting and School of Carbohydrate Chemistry;
- Delegate for the Department of Chemistry in the “Communication & Public Engagement” & in the “VQR- Terza Missione” committee of University of Florence
- Awarded in 2019 with the prize of the Organic Division of the Società Chimica Italiana for her researches on Life Sciences;
- In 2020, she was selected by ACS Omega for the special collection “Women at the Forefront of Chemistry”.
Research Interest
Cristina Nativi’s main scientific interests concern: the development of saccharidic anti-pathogens; the design and synthesis of antigen mimetics for immunotherapy; molecular recognition of carbohydrates and the development of saccharidic inhibitors of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs).
