Dario Neri

Dario Neri is Co-founder, CEO, CSO, and President of the Scientific Advisory Board of Philogen. He graduated in Chemistry at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Prof. Kurt Wüthrich, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002. For his dissertation, he was awarded the Silver Medal of ETH. After a 5 years post-doctoral research position in the lab of 2018 Chemistry Nobel Price Winner Sir Gregory Winter at the Cambridge Centre of Protein Engineering in Cambridge, UK, he returned to ETH Zurich in 1996 as Assistant Professor in Molecular Structure Biology. Since 1999 he has been a Professor of Biomacromolecules in the department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich before he permanently joined Philogen in 2020.

Prof. Neri is the recipient of numerous awards, including the ISOBM Abbott Prize 2000, the Amgen-Dompe' Biotec Award 2000, the Prous Award 2006 of the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry, and the Phoenix Prize 2014, and is the author of more than 400 publications in international scientific journals.