Graduated in Physics in 1999, Prof. Giulio Caracciolo obtained his PhD in Biophysics in 2003. From 2007 to 2010 he was a university researcher at the Department of Chemistry and from 2010 to 2015 at the Department of Molecular Medicine (SSD FIS / 07). Since 2015 he is associate professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine. He is national coordinator of research projects financed by the Ministry of University and Research, the Ministry of Health, the AIRC Foundation. The main research activity concerns the development, validation and patenting of nanotechnologies for the delivery of drugs and nucleic acids in vitro and in vivo. A further line of research concerns the study of the interactions between nanomaterials and biological fluids for the development of technologies for the early diagnosis of tumors. Giulio Caracciolo is co-author of over 160 scientific publications, of numerous participations in international conferences, of four Italian patents, of two PCT applications. Prof. Giulio Caracciolo coordinates an international network of researchers active in the field of drug delivery and bionano interactions and actively collaborates with small, medium and large national and international pharmaceutical companies (Novartis Pharma, Roche).
