Paola Picotti

Prof. Dr. Paola Picotti

Position

Deputy head of Institute for Molecular Systems Biology

Relation

Full Professor

Contact Data

Tel.: +41 44 633 25 58
Fax: +41 44 633 12 98

Address

ETH Zürich
Paola Picotti
Inst. f. Molekulare Systembiologie
HPM  H 46
Otto-Stern-Weg 3
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

Organisations Full Professor at the Department of Biology
http://www.biol.ethz.ch/
Research Field

Paola Picotti’s team uses advanced targeted proteomic and phosphoproteomic methods to study protein misfolding and aggregation in cells.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

After her PhD at the University of Padua (Italy), Paola Picotti joined as a postdoc the group of Ruedi Aebersold at ETH Zurich, where she developed targeted proteomic technologies based on mass spectrometry. In 2011, she was appointed Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biochemistry of ETHZ and in 2017 tenured Associate Professor at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETHZ.

Major contributions of the Picotti group include the development of structural proteomics technologies to probe in situ protein structural changes, the characterization of the determinants of proteome thermostability, the large-scale identification of protein small molecule interactions and the discovery of regulators of toxic proteins involved in Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Picotti was awarded the Latsis Prize, the Cotter Award of the US HUPO, the SGMS award, the EMBO Young Investigator Award, the Friedrich Miescher Award, the Juan- Pablo Albar award of the European Proteome Association, an ERC Starting grant, an ERC Consolidator Grant and the EMBO Gold Medal.

Honours
2020
Election to the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
2020
Rössler Prize, ETH Zurich
2019
EMBO Gold Medal
2018
Friedrich-Miescher Award
2018
Juan Pablo Albar “Protein Pioneer” Award, European Proteome Organization
2016
EMBO Young Investigator Award
2016
Robert J. Cotter Award, American Human Proteome Organization
2016
SGMS Award for independent research in the field of MS
2011
ETH Zurich Latsis Prize
2008
ERG-FP7 Reintegration Grant of the European Research Council
2007
Marie Curie Grant
Additional Information

Professor Picotti holds three patents.

Course Catalogue
551-0130-00L Fundamentals of Biology II
551-0224-00L Advanced Proteomics
551-0324-00L Systems Biology
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