Giulia Salluce

Dr. Giulia Salluce
Post-Doc
Chimie ParisTech
PSL University
CNRS
Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences
Laboratory for Inorganic Chemical Biology
+33 1 85 78 41 53
giulia.salluce@chimieparistech.psl.eu

Giulia was born in the province of Bergamo and completed her BSc and MSc in Biotechnology at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy). After that, she moved to Finland to expand her laboratory practical experience, and finally ended up in Spain to carry out the doctoral thesis. She obtained the PhD in 2023 from the University of Santiago de Compostela under the supervision of Prof. Javier Montenegro, working on supramolecular systems for the intracellular delivery of hydrophilic cargos. As part of the PhD, she also spent four months in the group of Gonçalo Bernardes at the University of Cambridge working on antibody-drug conjugates. She joined the Gasser Group thanks to a Xunta de Galicia’s post-doctoral fellowship.

Giulia is passionate about cats and everything that concerns music; in her spare time, she likes to go to concerts, discover new music and hang out with friends..

Awards

2019: Predoctoral research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

2020: Best poster award at the V GEQB ChemBio Group Meeting, Granada (Spain) for the poster “Helical Oligoalanines for Protein Delivery”.

2023: PhD in Chemical Sciences and Technologies awarded with the distinction Excellent “Cum Laude”.

Publications

[5] Chen Y, Barba-Bon A, Gruner B, Winterhalter M, Aksoyoglu M A, Pangeni S, Ashjari M, Brix K, Salluce G, Folgar-Cameán Y, Montenegro J, Nau W M. Metallacarborane Cluster Anions of the Cobalt Bisdicarbollide-Type as Chaotropic Carriers for Transmembrane and Intracellular Delivery of Cationic Peptides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (24), 13089–13098.

[4] Barba-bon A*, Salluce G*, Lostalé-seijo I, Assaf K I, Hennig A, Montenegro J, Nau W M. Boron Clusters as Broadband Membrane Carriers. Nature 2022, 603, 637–642. *These authors contributed equally.

[3] Ferhati X*, Jiménez-Moreno E*, Hoyt E A*, Salluce G, Cabeza-Cabrerizo M, Navo C D, Compañón I, Akkapeddi P, Matos M J, Salaverri N, Garrido P, Martínez A, Laserna V, Murray T V, Jiménez-Osés G, Ravn P, Bernardes G J L.  Single Mutation on Trastuzumab Modulates the Stability of Antibody-Drug Conjugates Built Using Acetal-Based Linkers and Thiol-Maleimide Chemistry. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (12), 5284–5294. *These authors contributed equally.

[2] Hammid A, Fallon JK, Lassila T, Salluce G, Smith PC, Tolonen A, Sauer A, Urtti A, Honkakoski P. Carboxylesterase Activities and Protein Expression in Rabbit and Pig Ocular Tissues. Mol. Pharm. 2021, 18 (3), 1305–1316.

[1] Pazo M, Salluce G, Lostalé-Seijo I, Juanes M, Gonzalez F, Garcia-Fandiño R, Montenegro J. Short oligoalanine helical peptides for supramolecular nanopore assembly and protein cytosolic delivery. RSC Chem. Biol. 2021, 2, 503–512.