Developed skills and lines of research

Loris Rizzello graduated in Biotechnology from the University of Salento in 2008. He obtained his PhD in Nanotechnology from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Lecce in 2012. Shortly after, he moved for five years to University College London (UCL), Department of Chemistry, where he studied how polymeric nanoparticles could be used for the treatment of tuberculosis. After this London experience, he moved for two years to the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona, where he studied artificial organoids to model infections. Since October 2020, he has been an Associate Professor of Protein Engineering at the University of Milan and since March 2021 also a Principal Investigator at the Italian Institute of Molecular Genetics (INGM) in Milan. He has received several scientific awards during his career. These include the Newton International Fellowship, donated by the prestigious English Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of London, and the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Community. He also received the prestigious ERC-Starting Grant in 2020 and an award from the Cariplo Foundation, both to fund studies on tuberculosis. He is engaged in research on therapeutic solutions against infections by intracellular pathogens and in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

Projects funded by FFC Ricerca as Principal Investigator or as Research Manager

FFC#11/2023
Resolving Mycobacterium abscessus infections with a phages-inspired therapy