Roberta Ettari
University of Messina, Italy
Biography
Roberta Ettari in 2008 received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Messina, she then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Chemistry (Galway, Ireland) and at Messina and Milan Universities. She spent also some research periods as guest scientist at Merck Research Laboratories (Pomezia), Instituto Grifols (Barcelona), Würzburg and Mainz Universities (Germany). In 2011, she received the “Farmindustria National Award for the Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry”. Since 2014, she is Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Messina working on the development of inhibitors of proteases involved in human and parasitic diseases.