Personal information

Surname(s) / First name(s)

Rizzo, Vincenzo

Address(es)

Piazza dello Sport 1 / 2 ,I-20020 Arese, Italy

Telephone(s)

+39-029385939         Mobile: +39-3396875519

Fax(es)

E-mail(s)

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Nationality(-ies)

Italian

Date of birth

April 13, 1949

Gender

Male

Work experience

Dates

January 2005 - Today

Occupation or position held

Scientific consultant

Main activities and responsibilities

Planning of laboratory activity / reorganization, setup of laboratory processes, solution of technical problems in the area of analytical and biophysical chemistry, advice for grant proposals.

Cooperates with CISI, a centre of excellence of the University of Milan, to the implementation of a modern analytical laboratory for the department of Combinatorial Chemistry. Cooperates with CNR, ISTM  laboratory (Milan). Act as a consultant for various pharmaceutical companies: Bracco Imaging srl, Solmag SpA, Antibioticos SpA, ACS Dobfar SpA. Since January 2009 cooperates with the Drug Discovery and Development unit of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT, Genua).

Name and address of employer

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Type of business or sector

Public & corporate R&D

Dates

November 1995 - December 2004

Occupation or position held

Director of Structural and Predevelopment Analysis Unit

Main activities and responsibilities

Coordination of a multi-laboratory unit (15-20 people) providing the analytical and physico-chemical support to the discovery teams from the evaluation of high throughput screens and up to the appointment of candidate drugs. Responsibility included all of the molecular structure characterization work at the R&D site (compounds from research and development including bulk drug or finished product impurities).

Duties included: defining scientific strategy, hiring, setting objectives and evaluating performance, benchmarking. In this role, he participated to several global initiatives and reviews within the company, actively represented the Pharmaceutical Sciences function within the Oncology Research Council, the decision taking committee of the site R&D.

Name and address of employer

Pharmacia Co., then Pfizer inc., now Nerviano Medical Sciences srl

R&D site of Nerviano – via Pasteur 10, I- 20014 Nerviano

Type of business or sector

Pharmaceutical company

Dates

November 1994 - October 1995

Occupation or position held

Deputy Director of R&D/Analytical Chemistry Department

Main activities and responsibilities

Coordination of research and development work performed by two analytical laboratories (8 people). Duties included: acting as a Department Director in the absence of the official one, defining laboratory organization and strategic changes, setting objectives and evaluating performance.

Name and address of employer

Farmitalia C.Erba

Type of business or sector

Pharmaceutical company

Dates

1987 - October 1994

Occupation or position held

Head of Molecular Interaction Laboratory

Main activities and responsibilities

Research and development work on molecules of pharmacological relevance with  biophysical methods. Coordination of laboratory activity (4 peple).

Name and address of employer

Farmitalia C.Erba

Type of business or sector

Pharmaceutical company

Dates

May 1986 – 1987

Occupation or position held

Research scientist

Main activities and responsibilities

Research in the area of ligand-protein, ligand –DNA binding as a support to discovery project needs

Name and address of employer

Farmitalia C.Erba

Type of business or sector

Pharmaceutical company

Dates

June 1983 – April 1986

Occupation or position held

Postdoctoral fellow

Main activities and responsibilities

Research in the area of peptide-lipid membrane interaction, tutorship of students and lecturing in the Biophysical Chemistry class

Name and address of employer

Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

Type of business or sector

University

Dates

April 1980 – April 1983

Occupation or position held

Research assistent

Main activities and responsibilities

Research in the area of peptide conformation, tutorship of graduate and postgraduate students, lecturing in the “Macromolecular Chemistry of Biomolecules” class

Name and address of employer

Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Type of business or sector

University

Dates

September 1978 – March 1980

Occupation or position held

Postdoctoral fellow

Main activities and responsibilities

Research in the area of physical chemistry of nucleic acids

Name and address of employer

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon USA

Type of business or sector

University

Dates

May 1974 – August 1978

Occupation or position held

Teaching assistent

Main activities and responsibilities

Research in the area of peptide synthesis and conformational / spectroscopic properties. Mentoring of graduate students.

Name and address of employer

Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Type of business or sector

University

Dates

November 1972 – August 1974

Occupation or position held

Postgraduate fellowship

Main activities and responsibilities

Research in the area of physical chemistry

Name and address of employer

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Type of business or sector

University

Education and training

Dates

December , 1977

Title of qualification awarded

Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Ph.D. equivalent)

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

Chemistry

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Level in national or international classification

Level 6 – Second stage of tertiary education

Dates

November 9, 1972

Title of qualification awarded

Laurea in Chimica

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

Chemistry

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Scuola Normale Superiore & Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Level in national or international classification

Level 6 – Second stage of tertiary education

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue(s)

Italian

Other language(s)

Self-assessment

Understanding

Speaking

Writing

European level ^(*)

Listening

Reading

Spoken interaction

Spoken production

English

Fluent

Fluent

Fluent

Fluent

Fluent

German

Good

Good

Good

Basic

Basic

French

Good

Good

Good

Basic

Basic

^(*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level

Social skills and competences

Communication skills, managing and directing others, acquired in a 10-year director experience at a corporate R&D site of a major multinational pharmaceutical company. Consulting skills, consolidated in 5-year experience with medium size companies and public R&D laboratories.

Organisational skills and competences

Managing budget, planning, setting objectives, motivating and mentoring direct reports: acquired in a 17-year experience as a laboratory head and then director in a pharmaceutical company.

Technical skills and competences

Broad scientific knowledge, academic experience in the subject of biophysical chemistry (PhD, 3 post-doc experiences at important universities). Knowledge of most relevant processes in pharmaceutical companies (18 years work experience in R&D departments). Training on the job as analytical chemist. First hand experience in LC-MS, analytical and preparative HPLC, fluorescence and other optical spectroscopy methods, and their applications to chemical and biochemical needs.

Technical writing and presentations: 55 papers in international refereed journals, more than 20 oral presentations in international meetings, 2 chapters of specialist books.

Innovation: author of 4 international patents.

Computer skills and competences

Generic knowledge of Windows operating system, expert knowledge of MS-office suite.

Use of databases, internet

Driving licence(s)

Italian driver licence B

Additional information

References:

Prof. Carlo Scolastico, Head of CISI scrl, Milan Italy

Tel. +39-02-50320900 E-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Prof. Ruth Duncan, Director of Centre for Polymer Therapeutics, Cardiff University, UK

Tel. +44-(0)2920874180 E-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it