Francesca Cutruzzolà#
| Membership Number: | 7198 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/francescacutruzzola-eng/home |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4621-2135 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-cutruzzola-2a1a0540/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - to date Deputy Director, Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- 2019 - to date Coordinator, PhD School in Life Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- 2011 - to date Full professor of Molecular Biology, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- 2013 Visiting Scientist - MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester (UK)
- 2009 Visiting Scientist - Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel)
- 2000 - 2011 Associate professor of Biochemistry, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- 1994 - 2000 Assistant professor of Biochemistry, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- 1991 Post-doctoral fellow, ETH Zurich, EMBO fellow
- 1988-1989 Visiting fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA).
Fields of Scholarship
- Riboregulation of protein activity
- Protein dynamics and allostery
- Reprogramming of cellular metabolism in cancer and other pathological states
- Protein-nucleic acids, Protein-protein, and protein-ligand interactions
- Nucleotide, amino acid and nitric oxide signaling
- Structural biology and protein engineering
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Nominated Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Italian Association of Cancer Research (AIRC)
- 2023 Elected National Coordinator of the "Proteins" Scientific Group of the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB)
- 2019 - 2022 Elected National Secretary and Executive Board Member, Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB)
- 2021 Nominated Work Package Leader (Dissemination and higher education) in the MOSBRI European Infrastructure Network
- 2014 Elected Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute Pasteur of Italy
- 2013 Elected Member of Accademia Medica Romana
- 2012 Nominated best 3 European Research Groups in the European Life Sciences Awards
- 1996 CNR (National Research Council of Italy) Fellow, University of Leiden (NL)
- 1992 NATO Fellow, University of California at Davis (USA)
- 1991 EMBO fellow, ETH Zurich (CH)




