Cristina Cosi
Senior Scientist
Pharma preclinical research
France
Biography
Biologist and pharmacologist , biochemist by training , with a Master in Science (Doctor in Biology) from the University of Florence, Italy , and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Toulouse, France, 1997, Cristina Cosi has an extensive working experience in the Neuroscience research field, mostly in industry at Pierre Fabre, France, but also in academic environments, in Italy , University of Florence and Verona, and US, NIH. She has focused her career on the understanding of neurodegenerative processes and mechanisms of neuronal plasticity in order to find medications that might be beneficial against neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases and pain. She has done pioneering work in the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors preclinical research field, by showing evidence of the neuroprotective activity of these compounds, for the first time. She has contributed to the discovery and development of neurotrophins receptors TRKA/B inhibitors as potential analgesics and D3 antagonists/5-HT1A agonists as potential antipsychotics.
Research Interest
Pharmacology and Neuroscience