EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
University of Catania, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science – 10/2024 – (ongoing)
Second-level Master in “Drug Design and Synthesis”
University of Siena, Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy – 12/2021 – 06/2023
Master's Degree in Pharmacy
University of Catania, Department of Drug and Health Sciences – 07/2021
Final grade: 110/110 with honors
Thesis: Design and synthesis of bicyclic and spirocyclic compounds as sigma receptor ligands
Erasmus+ Student
University of Oslo, Department of Chemistry, Computational Chemistry – 12/2018 – 06/2019
Activities: study of biological databases, bio-sequence alignment, genomic sequence analysis, protein modeling, RNA-seq, Gene Ontology, and use of GROMACS.
WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Fellow – 10/2022 – 09/2024
ICB-CNR, Catania
Project: Natural Products Assisted-Organic Chemistry
Research Collaborator – Erasmus+
Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo – 12/2018 – 06/2019
Computational Chemistry | Activities: molecular simulation and protein modeling
Final Report: Computer Simulation of Cellular Retinaldehyde Binding Protein in Complex with All-Trans Retinal
Supervisor: Prof. M. Cascella
My research focuses on in silico medicine and modeling of the immune system, with the goal of supporting various clinical treatments. I aim to enhance preclinical and clinical trials through computational approaches, optimizing therapeutic strategies to improve patient outcomes.
Sanfilippo Claudia, Cernuto Federica and Patti Angela. "Expanding the use of peroxygenase from oat flour in organic synthesis: enantioselective oxidation of sulfides." International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 24, no. 8, 2023, p. 7464. DOI: 10.3390/ijms24087464.
Sanfilippo Claudia, Cernuto Federica and Patti Angela. "Stereoselective oxidation of bis-sulfides catalyzed by peroxygenase from oat." Molecular Catalysis, vol. 566, 2024, p. 114440. DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2023.114440.
