Dario Neri
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Born in Rome (Italy) on 1 May 1963, Dario Neri studied Chemistry at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, graduating with a thesis on the synthesis and characterization of complex polyunsaturated secondary metabolites, isolated from higher plants. He earned his doctorate in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kurt Wüthrich at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics of the ETH Zürich in 1992, receiving the Silver Medal of ETH Zürich for his dissertation. With an EU Bridge Bursary, Dario Neri worked from 1992 until 1996 at the Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering, Medical Research Council Centre, under the supervision of Sir Gregory Winter. He has now been a Professor at the ETH Zurich since 1996.
Research Interest
Engineering of therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of cancer and of chronic inflammatory conditions; Development of DNA-encoded chemical libraries.
