PERSONAL INFORMATIONS
FILIPPO BASAGNI
Birth’s date: 15/08/1992 Place of birth: Arezzo (AR)
E-mail: filippo.basagni2@unibo.it [mailto:filippo.basagni2@unibo.it]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
01/10/24 - to now Tenure Track Researcher
Dept of Pharmacy and Biotechnologies, Via Belmeloro 6, Bologna.
Research project: “Design and synthesis of covalent ligands as chemical probes for studying chronic-degenerative diseases”.
01/04/2021 - 31/03/24 Postoctoral Researcher
Prof. Anna Minarini’s research group, Dept of Pharmacy and Biotechnologies, Via Belmeloro 6, Bologna.
Tutor: Prof. Anna Minarini.
Research project: “Design and synthesis of dual inhibitors of Fyn and GSK3beta as pharmacological tools for studying neuroinflammatory processes”.
01/01/2020 - 26/03/20 Visiting PhD student
Host: Prof. Michael Decker - Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry – University of Wurzburg
03/04/2017 – 06/10/2017 Postgraduate visiting research student
Host: Prof. Antony Gee’s research group, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London – St. Thomas’ Hospital London (UK). Supervisor: Dott. Salvatore Bongarzone.
AWARDS
Award from the Medicinal Chemistry Division (SCI) for the best PhD thesis (2022)
Acknowledged as Very Important Paper for the article Basagni F. et al., ChemMedChem, 2020, 15 (15), 1374-1389, afterward selected for the Cover Feature of the same issue
Best publication award 2019 Nuclear Medicine and Biology for Bongarzone, Salvatore; Basagni, Filippo; Sementa, Teresa; Singh, Nisha; Gakpetor, Caleb; Faugeras, Vincent; Bordoloi, Jayanta; Gee, Antony D.*, Development of [18F]FAMTO: A novel fluorine-18 labelled positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer for imaging CYP11B1 and CYP11B2 enzymes in adrenal glands, «NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY», 2019, 68-69, pp. 14 - 21
Best poster awards at XVIII Giornata della Chimica - Emilia Romagna 2018 for Basagni F., Caporaso R., Bartolini M., Iurlo M., Marcaccio M., Minarini A., Rosini M. Pro-electrophilic compounds as pharmacologic tools for investigating the amyloidogenic pathway in Alzheimer’s disease.
INSTRUCTION
2021 PhD
XXXIII cycle in “Scienze Biotecnologiche, Biocomputazionali, Farmaceutiche e Farmacologiche”.
Prof. Anna Minarini’s research group, Dept of Pharmacy and Biotechnologies, Via Belmeloro 6, Bologna.
Tutor: Prof. Michela Rosini.
Research project: “DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF (PRO)ELECTROPHILIC COMPOUNDS FOR INVESTIGATING THE MULTIFACTORIAL NATURE OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES: FOCUS ON INFLAMMATION-DRIVEN EVENTS”.
2018 Qualified to Pharmacist profession at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università degli studi di Bologna
2017 Single Cycle Degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies (110/110L) - Alma Mater Studiorum - Università degli studi di Bologna
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Tenure-Track Researcher of SSD: CHEM-07/A Medicinal Chemistry dedicated to the development of small molecules bearing alternative mechanisms of action (covalent, allosteric, multifunctional) as chemical probes for studying chronic-degenerative disease.
Author of 22 peer-reviewed publications in international journals with IF. h-index: 12, Total citations: 416 (Scopus, August 2026)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
From AA 2023-2024: teacher of EXTRACTION OF PHYTO-DERIVATIVES II (6 CFU) within the Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences programme.
Relator or co-relator of >50 experimental thesis in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technolgy and Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Tutor of the course - Analisi dei Medicinali I/II (Pharmacy - University of Bologna, 2018-2023)
Tutor of Specialisation School in Hospital Pharmacy (2021-2026) and of Single Cycle Degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology (2015-2016)
