Alessio Ciulli

Ciulli remained in Cambridge University to conduct post-doctoral research on fragment-based drug discovery with Professor Abell and Professor Tom L. Blundell, under a College Junior Research Fellowship. Between February and June 2009, Ciulli went to Yale University as Human Frontier Science Programme visiting fellow to visit the laboratory of Professor Craig Crews before returning to Cambridge University to start his independent research career. While at Cambridge, Ciulli was the group leader in the Department of Chemistry, Director of Studies in Chemistry and BBSRC David Phillis Fellow at Christ's College. In April 2013, he took up a Readership in Chemical & Structural Biology as a principal investigator within the Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery in the University of Dundee. Ciulli was promoted as the Professor of Chemical & Structural Biology in the same division in October 2016. In 2017, he co-founded Amphista Therapeutics, a company that focuses on developing drugs based on targeted protein degradation.

Alessio Ciulli FRSC (born in Firenze, 22 July 1977) is an Italian British biochemist. Currently, he is the Professor of Chemical & Structural Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, when he founded and directs Dundee' new Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD). He is also the scientific co-founder and advisor of Amphista Therapeutics.