Systems and Synthetic Biology

Biography

Davide De Lucrezia is currently the CEO of Explora Biotech Srl, a biotech dynamic company he co-founded in 2006 and adjunct professor in Bio-nanomaterial at University Ca Foscari Venezia. Until 2012 he served as operative coordinator of the LivingTech Lab at the European Centre for Living Technology (Venice, Italy). He graduated in 2004 in Biology at the University of Rome “Roma Tre” and pursued a PhD degree in biochemistry in 2009. Prior joining ECLT he has been head of the pharmacokinetics and metabolomics unit at San Raffaele Hospital in Rome. In 2001-2003 he was staff scientist at Polyphor AG (Switzerland), and research technician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich. He wrote several papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and books for both specialized and general audience and is the inventor of 1 patent. He has been involved in several European and international projects both as coordinator (THEGRAIL and NEXT projects) and WP leader (MAGISTER, ETOILE, AMCARE, DRIVE, LIAR and TOPCAPI). He also leverages his competences in IP strategic management for private investor and biotech companies at both national, European (EPO) and International (PCT)

Research Interest

Davide De Lucrezia main research of interest mainly focuses on System and Synthetic Biology and In vitro evolution of protein and nucleic acid, chemical synthetic biology of protein and nucleic acid.