Full professor
Organizational affiliation: Department of Food and Drug
SSD: Pharmaceutical Chemistry (CHEM-07/A)
President of the single-cycle degree course in PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Career

  • 2002: Laurea in Chimica e Tecnologia Farmaceutiche (Degree in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry) at Università di Parma (110/110 cum laude).
  • 2006: Dottore in Ricerca in Chimica Farmaceutica (PhD in Medicinal Chemistry) at Università di Pavia.
  • 1/11/2005: Ricercatore (Researcher) at the Facoltà di Farmacia (Faculty of Pharmacy), Università di Parma.
  • 1/11/2008-30/09/2013: Ricercatore confermato (Researcher) at the Facoltà di Farmacia (Faculty of Pharmacy), Università di Parma.
  • 1/10/2014-30/10/2023: Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Dipartimento di Farmacia before and after at the Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti e del Farmaco Università di Parma.
  • Since 1/11/2023: Full Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at  Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti e del Farmaco Università di Parma.

Research experiences outside the Italian University

  • Visiting Scientist (2006, 2007) at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (UK), in the computational chemistry group of Prof. Adrian Mulholland (https://mulhollandgroup.wordpress.com).
  • Visiting Scientist (2008) and Scientific Consultant (2010) at the Drug Discovery and Development Department of the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, led by Prof. Daniele Piomelli.
  • From 2013 to 2016 he has been Visiting Fellow at the "Faculty of Health and Life Sciences" of the Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.
  • 2020: Visiting Professor – School of Chemistry – University of Bristol, Bristol (UK)

Other Duties:

  • Since 15/01/2024: Delegate of the Department for the Quality of the Research
  • For the 2021-2023 period  is Chair of the Advanced School in Drug Reaseach & Development promoted by Regione Emilia-Romagna 
  • Since 2022 Chair of the Board of Teachers of the Master Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology
  • Member of the Drug Design and Discovery Group at the Università degli Studi di Parma
  • Member of the Board of Teachers for the PhD Program in Drug Sciences at Università degli Studi di Parma
  • Chair of the Committee for International Mobility for the Department of Food and Drug of the University of Parma
  • Member of the Editorial Board of PloS One (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/
  • Co-Chairman of the First Congress on the Eph/ephrin System, supported by the Italian Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the SCI (Parma, May 2016)
  • Member of the organising committee of the 21st European Symposium on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship - EuroQSAR 2016 (Verona, September 2016)
  • Member of the scientific committee of the 12th European Workshop in Drug Design (Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, May 2019)

International Awards

  • Recipient of the New Investigator Award 2009 at the Gordon Rearch Conference on "Cannabinoid Function in the CNS", delivered at the University of New England, Biddeford, (ME), USA, August 2-7, 2009.
  • Runner-up of the EFMC Prize 2010 for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia, conferred on occasion of the XXIst International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC), held in Brussels on September 5-9, 2010.
  • Plenary speaker at the Gordon Research Conference in Computational Chemistry (Girona, Spain July 2016).
  • Opening lecturer at the conference SBDD2017 - Computational Advances in Drug Discovery  (Lausanne, CH,  September 2017) 
  • Invited speaker at the Pacifichem Conference 2021 - organized by the American and Japanese Chemical Societies (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 2021)

Scientific production

  • The research activities of Dr. Lodola have led to more than 120 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Lodola possesses the following bibliometric indicators of scientific production (Jan 2022, Scopus): H-index = 33; total citations > 3000

Positions

President of the single-cycle degree course in PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
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Teaching

Research

Publications

Public Engagement Initiatives

  • XXIX National Meeting in Medicinal Chemistry

    NMMC è il congresso di bandiera della Divisione di Chimica Farmaceutica e rappresenta la migliore opportunità per condividere i progressi nella ricerca e favorire collaborazioni tra ricercatori provenienti sia dal mondo accademico che dall'industria. Gli oltre 350 partecipanti iscritti alla XXIX edizione hanno avuto la possibilità di seguire interventi scientifici tenuti da esperti di livello internazionale che copriranno i più recenti progressi nel campo della chimica farmaceutica, come la modulazione dei segnali lipidici come strategia per realizzare nuovi approcci terapeutici, l’uso dell’intelligenza artificiale e dei metodi computazionali nella progettazione di farmaci, l’utilizzo di tecniche biofisiche per la caratterizzazione dell’interazione tra farmaci e bersagli molecolari e la sostenibilità ambientale.

  • 4th congress on the EPh-ephrin system

    Congresso riguardo il sistema EPh-ephrins

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