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Elena Lenci è ricercatore a tempo determinato in Chimica Organica presso il Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Università di Firenze. Ha conseguito il titolo di Doctor Europaeus n Scienze Chimiche nel 2017 presso l'Università di Firenze, dopo un periodo di formazione all'University of Oxford (UK). Ha pubblicato più di 40 articoli scientifici e ha editato il libro Small Molecule Drug Discovery (Elsevier, 2019). Ha ricevuto diversi riconoscimenti, tra cui il Reaxys SCI Young Researcher Award (2015), il EYCN/NATCHEMDRUGS International Award for Young Chemists (2017) e il Premio alla Ricerca Junior “Chimica Organica per le Scienze della Vita”. Gli interessi di ricerca riguardano la sintesi e l'analisi chemoinformatica di molecole bioattive, con applicazioni di Drug Discovery in campo oncologico, delle malattie infettive e neurodegenerative. E' stata consigliere (2016-2020) e coordinatore (2020-2021) del Gruppo Giovani della Società Chimica Italiana, delegato italiano nel Gruppo Giovani della Società Europea EuCheMS (2019) e Young Observer nell'organizzazione IUPAC (dal 2021).
Elena Lenci
Ricercatore a tempo determinato Legge 240/2010 (RTD-B).
Dipartimento di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia, 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze Tel. 0554573511, e-mail:elena.lenci@unifi.it
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Co-autrice di 39 articoli pubblicati su riviste internazionali peer-reviewed, 20 come primo autore (di cui 7 come autore di riferimento) e 2 come primo autore condiviso. 2 pubblicazione sono state selezionate come Very Important Paper, 1 pubblicazione è stata selezionata da ChemInform Journal e 1 pubblicazione è stata selezionata dagli editori per la copertina dell’issue ed è stata inserita nello special issue“Editor's Choice Collection”
Co-editrice di un libro pubblicato da Elsevier "
h-index: 13. 617 citazioni (fonte Scopus,22/04/2023).
SCOPUS Author ID: 8386615500ORCID:0000-0001-7408-2828
Web of Science Researcher ID: J-2775-2018
37 comunicazioni scientifiche a congressi 26 come autore di cui 2 presentazioni orali come awardee lectures e 1 presentazione orale come invited lecture
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Dr Lenci graduated cum laude in Chemical Sciences at the University of Florence in 2013 and received the Doctor Europaeus PhD title in Organic Chemistry in 2017, after spending a research period at the University of Oxford, UK. Since 2022 she is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" of the University of Florence. Her scientific activities include the implementation of novel synthetic approaches for the generation of compounds with medicinal chemistry applications, especially in the field of cancer and infective diseases, and the chemoinformatic analysis of chemical libraries. She received several awards: Reaxys - Italian Chemical Society Young Researcher Award (2015); International Award for Young Chemists ”NATCHEMDRUGS” (2017); and the Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences Award Junior from the Italian Chemical Society (2021). She is author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and she edited the book "Small Molecules Drug Discovery" published in 2019 from Elsevier. Besides her scientific activities, she has been Board Member (2016-2020) and then coordinator (2020-2021) of the Young Group of the Italian Chemical Society, national delegate of the European Young Chemistry Network (EYCN) (2019) and Italian Young Observer in IUPAC (from 2021).
CURRENTPOSITION
Assistant professor of Organic Chemistry (RTD-B), DR 81/2022, Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Italy
EDUCATION
2023 National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry (valid from 2023 to 2033)
2017 PhD, Doctor Europaeus in Chemical Sciences, with honours
Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Italy
Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Trabocchi
2015 Professional Qualification as Chemist
2013 Master Degree in Chemistry (LM-54), with honours, University of Florence
2011 Bachelor Degree in Molecular Biotechnology (L-2), with honours, University of Florence
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2019 – 2022 Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Italy
Project entitled: Synthesis of matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor constructs for targeted anticancer therapy with molecular imaging
Fellowship granted by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia as winner of the call “Giovani@RicercaScientifica 2018”
2017 – 2019 Post-doctoral fellow
Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Italy, Prof. Andrea Trabocchi
Project entitled: Design and synthesis of beta-secretase inhibitors
2016 Visiting PhD student (six months) in the group of Prof. Darren Dixon
Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2021 “Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences prize 2021 - Junior” by the Organic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI).
2018 Young Chemists Crossing Borders (YCCB) Exchange Program scholarship – selection of 4 young European chemists to participate in a program established in Boston (USA) that combined networking activities and the participation at the 250th ACS National Meeting.
2017 EYCN/NATCHEMDRUGS International Award for Young Chemists, Krakow (Poland) – Award assigned to a under-35 European chemist in recognition for the best research activity in the field of synthesis of drugs from natural products.
2016 Award – Poster Presentation, First Prize, Late Stage Functionalization Conference, Oxford.
2016 Winner of the European competition to attend the Early Career Researchers’ Meeting of the European Lead Factory in Barcelona, and winner of the Best Flash Presentation Award.
2015 Reaxys - Italian Chemical Society Young Researcher Award – Second prize. Assigned by the Young Group of the Italian Chemical Society for the category Life Sciences.
SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS
2017– Supervision of 5 BSc students in Chemistry, 3 MSc students in Chemistry, 2 BSc students in Biology, 5 MSc students in Molecular Biotechnology of the University of Florence and 3 Erasmus students of the Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Rennes (France).
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2023 - Titular teacher of the course “Organic Chemistry” for BSc students of Viticolture and Enology (B022) of the University of Florence (2 CFU, 150 students)
Titular teacher of the course “Organic Chemistry” for BSc students of Textile and Fashion Design (B246) of the University of Florence (2 CFU, 150 students, module A + 2 CFU, 150 students, module B)
2022 Lecture series at the Institut des Sciences Chimiques - University of Rennes, CNRS (France) entitled “How to Design Better Chemical Libraries”
2021 Titular teacher of the course “Small molecule libraries: synthetic methods and cheminformatics approaches” held for PhD students of the University of Florence
2020 Lecture Series on “Organic Synthesis and Chemoinformatics” held for PhD and MSc students in Chemical Sciences at the University of Genova (Italy)
2019 Titular teacher of the course “Molecular Biotechnology” held for BSc students in Biology of the University of New Haven – Tuscany Campus
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2023 Autumn Meeting for Young Chemists in Biomedical Sciences (AMYC-BIOMED)
2021 XVIII Convegno Nazionale sulle Reazioni Pericicliche e Sintesi di Etero e Carbocicli, Firenze
2020 Virtual Symposium on Pericyclic Reactions and Synthesis of Carbo- and Heterocyclic Systems
2021 - 2016 Merck Young Chemists Symposium, Rimini
2018 EYCN Symposium and XIII EYCN Delegate Assembly, Torino
2019 - 2016 Y-RICh (National Workshop), Roma
2016 Design your Future (National Workshop), Salerno
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2021– IUPAC Young Observer, Italian representative, https://www.iupac.cnr.it/it/young-observers
2020 – Delegate in the “Young Group of the Interdepartmental Center on Pericyclic Reactions”
2020 – Postdoc representative in the Department of Chemistry, University of Florence
2019 Italian delegate at the 14th Delegates Assembly of EYCN-EuCheMS, Bremen (Germany)
2018 Italian delegate at the 1st ChemPubSoc Europe Early Career Researchers Meeting, Weinheim (Germany)
2019 – 2021 Vice-coordinator, then coordinator (2021) of the Young Group of the Italian Chemical Society
2016 – 2018 Board member of the Young Group of the Italian Chemical Society
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2023 Guest Editor for European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Special Collection “New Generation Methodologies in Organic Chemistry: A Focus on Italy”
2021 Guest Editor for Molecules (ISSN: 1420-3049, MDPI), special issue “Bioconjugation Strategies in Drug Delivery and Molecular Imaging”
2019 - Reviewer, European Journal of Organic Chemistry (Wiley), Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS), Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (Taylor & Francis), Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (RSC), International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI), ChemBioChem (Wiley), Pharmaceuticals (MDPI), Molecules (MDPI), New Journal of Chemistry (RSC), Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly (Springer)
2019 Review Editor for Understanding Health, Frontiers for Young Minds
2016 – 2021 Evaluator, Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Primo Levi award
PUBLICATIONS, PATENTS AND COMMUNICATION TO CONFERENCES
- Co-author of 3 conferences proceedings and 37 communications to conferences (12 poster presentations, 5 flash presentations, 16 oral presentations, 2 invited talks, 1 awardee lecture).
- Co-editor of the book “Small Molecule Drug Discovery”, Trabocchi, A., Lenci, E., Eds.; Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128183496, 20 November 2019, 356 pages.
- Co-author of the patent: Credi, C., Dallari, C., Pavone, F. S., Innocenti, R., Trabocchi, A. Lenci, E. Nanoparticella Raman Attivaper Spettroscopia SERS, in particolare per la Rivelazione di Analiti Altamente Diluiti in CampioniLiquidi e Relativi Apparato e Metodo per Spettroscopia SERS, University of Florence andItalian National Research Council,Depositnumber:102022000027336-30/12/2022
- Co-author of 37 articles published on peer-reviewed journals: 20 papers published as first author, 8 as corresponding author, 2 with first authorship shared. 2 publications have been selected as Very Important Paper, 1 publication has been highlighted by ChemInform Journal, 1 publication has been included in the special issue “Editor's Choice Collection”, 1 publication has been written as invited review for the special issue ChemBioTalent of ChemBioChem journal. h-index: 12. 617 citations (Scopus, 22/04/2023).
SCOPUS Author ID: 8386615500 ORCID: 0000-0001-7408-2828
Web of Science ResearcherID: J-2775-2018
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