Mr. Francesco Rinaldi studied Pharmacy at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. From September 2016 to March 2017 he performed the Pharmacy Internship at the Maggiore Hospital in Bologna (AUSL Bologna). In 2017 Mr. Rinaldi moved to the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa for a 3 months inthernship period working on the expression and the purification of proteins of pharmaceutical interest. Then, he spent 6 months, at ETH Zurich in Prof. Dario Neri Biomacromolecules group, to perform his Master Thesis, focused on the development of new monoclonal antibodies.
His master thesis contributed to a paper, published on Leukemia Research in June 2019, entitled "Development of a new monoclonal antibody against CD123 for the treatment of Acute Myeloid Lekaemia".
In March 2018 he graduated in Pharmacy with a final mark of 110/110 cum laude. Later in June he passed the State Examination for Pharmacists with the overall mark of 292/350. He is enrolled as a member of the Bologna Pharmacist order.
During 2018 he followed the Summer School in Metodology of Clinical Research and the training course "Education of the Community Pharmacist" organized by Prof. Maurizio Cini, at University of Bologna.
Mr. Rinaldi has been External Collaborator in Prof. Andrea Cavalli Computational and Chemical Biology group from January 2019 to October 2019, working on the expression and purification of a monomeric form of RAD51,for the validation of new chemical compounds and peptides as protein inhibitors.
Since November 2019 is a PhD Fellow in Prof. Andrea Cavalli group grading first after the selection process at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and working on a project entitled "Innovative approaches to overcome drug-resistance in cancer".
In November 2020 Mr. Francesco Rinaldi has been awarded of a triennal FIRC-AIRC fellowship for a project entitled "Unveiling the molecular mechanism of BRCA2-RAD51 interaction to tackle cancer onset"
Tutor Activities
A.Y. 2018/2019 - A.Y. 2019/2020- A.Y. 2020/2021 - A.Y. 2021/2022 Laboratory Tutor Pharmaceutical Technology II G.R. A Prof. Isabella Orienti.
A.Y. 2020/2021 Laboratory Tutor Pharmaceutical Technology II G.R. B Prof. Cristina Cavallari.
A.A. 2019/2020 Laboratory Tutor Analysis of Medicines I Prof. Michela Rosini.
Awards
2015-2018 4 Lettere del Magnifico Rettore Excellence-univeristy awards certyfing excellent results during the fourth year of the course.
2017 Winner for a scholarship for the development of the Master Thesis in a foreing laboratory.
2018 Internship scholarship
2020 FIRC-AIRC Three-years fellowship "Ignazia Larussa" ID 25239
2024 EMBO Travel Grant for the partecipation to Practical course Small Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering from biomacromolecules in solution
2025 Angelini Pharma Prize for the best doctoral thesis awarded by the Division of Chemistry of Biological Systems Italian Chemical Society Conference
2025 Fellowship for the partecipation to Division of Chemistry of Biological Systems Italian Chemical Society Conference
