Chemical Modulators of Protein Misfolding and Neurodegenerative Disease

Dr. Pierfausto Seneci is Associate Professor in the Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry at the University of Milan. He is currently affiliated with the University of Milan Centre for Interdisciplinary Biomolecular Studies and Industrial Applications (CISI) Centre of Excellence, and is responsible for the Combinatorial Chemistry/High Throughput MedChem Laboratory. He has over 20 years of medicinal chemistry experience working in industry, and held business development positions with GSK, Sanofi, and start-up pharmaceutical companies including Sirenade and NiKem working in drug discovery, neurodegeneration, oncology, and antibacterials. He is author of approximately 80 papers on the topic and several book chapters, including the book “Solid-Phase Synthesis and Combinatorial Technologies” with Wiley-Interscience in 2000.

• Chapter 1 Chemical modulators of protein misfolding, neurodegeneration and tau: What’s not covered nextChapter 2 Targeting the protein quality control (PQC) machinery: Chaperones & Co...Chapter 3 Targeting proteasomal degradation of soluble, misfolded proteins: Ubi majorChapter 4 Targeting unselective autophagy of cellular aggregates: A shotgun approachChapter 5 Targeting selective autophagy of insoluble protein aggregates: The sniper’s philosophyChapter 6 Targeting assembly and disassembly of protein aggregates: A raggle-taggle bunch with high hopes