Angela Casini

^[1] She earned her PhD in chemical sciences at the University of Florence in 2004.^[2] She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pisa, where she worked on the mechanisms by which metal-complexes that are used as anti-cancer agents activate.^[1] She used both spectroscopy, including mass spectrometry imaging, and molecular biology.^[1]

Angela Casini joined the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as a Principal Investigator in 2008.^[3] She moved to the University of Groningen in 2011, where she was made a Rosalind Franklin Fellow.^[4] She was made a Chair of Medicinal Chemistry at Cardiff University in 2015, and has served as Director of Postgraduate Teaching from 2018.^[5] She spent 2016 as a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich.

Her awards and honours include;

• 2012 European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry^[6]
• 2014 Gordon Research Conference Early Career Investigator^[7]
• 2014 Thomson Reuters World's Most Influential Scientific Mind^[8]
• 2016 Elected to the Young Academy of Europe^[9]
• 2018 Burghausen Diamond of Chemistry Award^[10][11]
• 2019 American Chemical Society Inorganic Lectureship Award^[12][13]

Her publications include;

• Casini, Angela (2003). "Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors". Medicinal Research Reviews. 23 (2): 146–189. doi:10.1002/med.10025. PMID 12500287. S2CID 90349277.
• Casini, Angela (2004). "Hypoxia activates the capacity of tumor-associated carbonic anhydrase IX to acidify extracellular pH". FEBS Letters. 577 (3): 439–445. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2004.10.043. PMID 15556624. S2CID 37646843.
• Casini, Angela (2004). "Unexpected nanomolar inhibition of carbonic anhydrase by COX-2-selective celecoxib: new pharmacological opportunities due to related binding site recognition". Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 47 (3): 550–557. doi:10.1021/jm030912m. PMID 14736236.

Casini serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry and the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.