Professor Gerardo Turcatti | |
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![]() Gerardo Turcatti in 2020 | |
Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Montevideo, Uruguay |
Known for | High-throughput screening |
Title | Adjunct Professor |
Academic background | |
Education | Chemistry, biochemistry |
Alma mater | University of the Republic (Uruguay) University of Geneva EPFL |
Thesis | Novel fluorescence-based approaches to probe ligand recognition and structure of the tachykinin NK2 receptor (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Horst Vogel |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Chemical biology |
Sub-discipline | Biochemistry, Pharmacology |
Institutions | EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
Main interests | Drug discovery Chemical biology High-throughput screening High-content screening Fluorescent cellular probes Image analysis |
Website | https://www.epfl.ch/research/facilities/biomolecular-screening/ |
Gerardo Turcatti (born 1959 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Swiss-Uruguayan chemist who specialises in chemical biology and drug discovery. He is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and director of the Biomolecular Screening Facility at the School of Life Sciences there.[1][2][3]