Annalisa Pastore
Italian chemist and biologist
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Annalisa Pastore MAE is a Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at King's College London.[3][4] In 2018 she was appointed full professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.[5] In 2022, she was appointed director of research for life sciences, chemistry and soft matter science at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. She resigned in Frebruary 2023.[6]
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Annalisa Pastore | |
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Pastore in 2017 | |
| Born | Italy |
| Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II ETH Zurich University of Wisconsin System |
| Awards | EMBO Member (2000)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Structural biology[2]
NMR Neurodegeneration Iron metabolism[3] |
| Institutions | King's College London University of Oxford European Molecular Biology Laboratory National Institute for Medical Research Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa European Synchrotron Radiation Facility |
| Website | www |
Education
Pastore studied chemistry at the University of Naples Federico II. She earned a master's degree in 1981 and her PhD in 1987.[citation needed] She worked as an exchange student with Richard R. Ernst at ETH Zurich and also at the University of Wisconsin.[7]
Research
Pastore started her career at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, working alongside Iain Donald Campbell.[8][9] Pastore was subsequently appointed a staff scientist position at European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1988. In 1991 she was made group leader of the Structures Program.[10] She joined the National Institute for Medical Research in 1991. She has solved several structures on the Protein Data Bank. She was made an honorary professor at University College London.[1] She took a one-year sabbatical at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research.[7] During this time, she filed several patents related to allergens and their uses.[11]
Pastore worked at King's College London from 2013 to 2018.[12] She has secured several million pounds of funding from Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.[13] She works on the molecular basis of neurodegeneration.[14] She looks at diseases caused by protein aggregation, including Huntington's disease and Machado–Joseph disease.[12] She also studies pathologies that are a result of misfunctioning of the iron metabolism, including Friedreich's ataxia.[12] She is interested the structure and function of these diseases and uses a range of characterisation techniques, including AFM, EM and ITC calorimetry.[12] She served as the Field Chief Editor for Frontiers Media Molecular Biosciences.[15] She serves as an editor of PeerJ.[9]
In 2018 Pastore was the first woman to be appointed full professor at the faculty of Science of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.[5][16]
Awards and honours
Pastore was elected a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE).[when?][17] She was nominated to AcademiaNet in 2013[18] and made a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2000.[1]
