Mattia Mori

Mattia Mori

Chair

Mattia Mori is associate professor in medicinal chemistry at the University of Siena. Research interests span from the use of computational tools for structural studies on macromolecules of therapeutic relevance to the identification and optimization of small molecules as drug candidates.

Patricia Rijo

Patricia Rijo

Vice Chair

Patrícia Rijo is a medicinal chemist with a PhD in Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Chemistry from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Currently, she is an associate professor at Lusófona University. Her research includes extraction, isolation, structural characterization, and molecular design of bioactive natural products from different natural sources, namely with antimicrobial activity.

Cristina Nativi

Cristina Nativi

Science Communication Coordinator

Cristina Nativi is full professor of organic chemistry at the University of Florence. Her research concerns the development of saccharide tumoral antigens for immunotherapy, antimicrobial glycosides and glycopeptides and new antimicrobial glycosylated biomaterials.
Priyanka Sahariah

Priyanka Sahariah

Grant Awarding Coordinator

Priyanka Sahariah is a Research Scientist in Polymer Chemistry at the University of Iceland and a Development Scientist at Alvotech, Iceland. Research interests include design, synthesis and structural characterization of biopolymer based conjugates for various biomedical applications including antimicrobial activity.

Dana Reichmann

Dana Reichmann

WG1 Leader

Dana Reichmann is an Associate professor at the Department of Biological Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research is dealing with understanding how microorganisms (yeast and bacteria) maintain their “healthy” and complex proteome during stress conditions. To achieve this goal, the Reichmann lab is utilizing and developing an extensive toolbox of technologies which are able to quantify changes on cellular and molecular levels, including in-vivo fluorescence-based sensors, and mass spectrometry based techniques such as redox and structural proteomics.

Younes Smani

Younes Smani

WG2 Leader

Younes Smani is a professor of microbiology at the University of Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). His research interests span from the identification of new therapeutic targets in the bacterial outer membrane, new antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, to the development of new approaches for the treatment of bacterial infections.
Carole Devaux

Carole Devaux

WG3 Leader

Carole Devaux is a senior researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Health focusing on translational research in infectious diseases. Her work spans over the development of immunoassays and in vivo models of infection to the development of immunotherapeutics against pathogens.

Didem ŞEN KARAMAN

Didem ŞEN KARAMAN

Young Researchers & Innovators coordinator

Didem ŞEN KARAMAN is an associate professor of biomedical engineering at İzmir Katip Çelebi University (İzmir, Turkey). Her research interests encompass the design of nanostructured materials as drug delivery systems, inherent antibacterial nanostructures, and the identification of their antibacterial modes of action.
Tomislav Meštrović

Tomislav Meštrović

Stakeholders coordinator

Tomislav Meštrović is a clinical microbiology specialist, Associate Professor at the University North in Croatia and an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His research interests include the estimation of the global, regional and local burden of antimicrobial resistance and the use of different diagnostic/methodological modalities for resistance surveillance.

Carolina Altilia

Grant Holder Manager

COST Office

Dr. Lucia Forzi

Science Officer

lucia.forzi@cost.eu

Mr. Matthew Borg

Administrative Officer

matthew.borg@cost.eu