ProfMauro Adamo

Professor

Department of Chemistry

  • Professor
    Department of Chemistry
  • 01 4022208 (Work)
  • 0877559190 (Mobile)
  • RCSI, Department of Chemistry, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Dublin

BIOGRAPHY

Ongoing research in the MFAA group focuses on the development of synthetic methodology required in Drug Discovery and Drug production. Mauro has published more than 85 papers and is a named inventor on 10 patent families. Prof. Adamo is particularly skilled at developing new synthetic routes for active pharmaceutical ingredients and has a number of industry funded collaborations in this field. Additional interests regards the of hypervalent sulfur species for the enanyoselective synthesis of halogenated compounds, in particular fluorinated (18F and 19F) amino acids and peptides.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Lecturer in Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
    The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland1 Jan 2002
  • Senior Lecturer In Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
    The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland1 Jan 2007 - 1 Jan 2010
  • Professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
    The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland1 Jan 2010 - 1 Jan 2014

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Chief Scientific Officer
    Kelada Pharmachem ltd, of Chemistry, Dublin1 May 2012 - 26 Sep 2019

DEGREES

  • PhD, Asymmetric Epoxidation of Unfunctionalised Alkenes
    University of Sheffield25 Dec 2001
  • Doctoral Degree, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
    University of Florence25 Dec 1997

RESEARCH SUB-AREAS

  • Pharmacy practice

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (UNSDGS)

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

RESEARCH CLUSTERS