Silvia Belloto

Silvia was born in Italy and obtained her master in Biotechnology from the University of Padua. In December 2010 she started an interdisciplinary PhD shared between the Heinis’ group at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) and the Wegner’s group at University of Basel. At the interface between molecular biology and organic chemistry, her project was focused on generation and development of photoswitchable (azobenzene-based) peptide ligands by phage display technology. After following the group to the University of Giessen during the last six months on her PhD she obtained the doctoral degree in January 2015.

Now at: Sandoz