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ProfMauro Adamo

Professor

Department of Chemistry

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

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

· Synthetic route scouting
· Enantioselective Fluorination with radioactive 18F
· Enantioselective Phase Transfer Catalysis
· Enantioselective synthesis using hypervalent sulfur and selenium species

GRANTS

  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Development of high throughput screening methodology to identify RNA-binding proteins via 19F Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
    RCSI1 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2027
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Development of high throughput screening methodology to identify RNA-binding proteins via 19F Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
    Research Ireland1 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2027
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Novel Therapeutics Targeting the FcgRIIa receptor
    Industry - Cash20 May 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Novel Therapeutics Targeting the FcgRIIa receptor
    Enterprise Ireland20 May 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Stipend increase for non state-funded PhD scholars
    RCSI1 Jan 2024 - 30 Sep 2029
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Additional Funding supplementary to NE:NC Award
    Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)1 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2027
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Application of the Pummerer’s fragmentation to the formation of C-F, C-C and C-O bonds in natural product synthesis and drug manufacture.
    RCSI1 Sep 2023 - 30 Sep 2027
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Preparation of 18F or 19F labelled RNAs via 4’-F and 2’-F-deoxyribose nucleotides and their precursors
    Industry - Cash1 Jun 2022 - 30 Sep 2023
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Preparation of 18F or 19F labelled RNAs via 4’-F and 2’-F-deoxyribose nucleotides and their precursors
    Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)1 Jun 2022 - 30 Sep 2023
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Preparation of 18F or 19F labelled RNAs via 4’-F and 2’-F-deoxyribose nucleotides and their precursors
    Industry - In Kind1 Jun 2022 - 30 Sep 2023
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Synthesis of ALPRARAZOL, ICRE project IDA07
    Industry1 Jul 2021 - 31 Dec 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    RCSI International Secondment Awards 2020
    RCSI10 Mar 2020 - 20 May 2022
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Commercialisation of Small Molecule ManUfacture including amino acids, peptides, pRoteins andbiomacromolecules for late stage inclusion of 18F and 19F
    Enterprise Ireland1 Jan 2020 - 31 Aug 2022
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Preparation of novel organocatalysts for the desymmetrisation of ketones via halogenation
    Irish Research Council IRC1 Mar 2019 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brian K
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    RCSI Contribution_IRC EPSPG
    RCSI1 Mar 2019 - 31 Dec 2022
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Feasibility Study and market analysis regarding the commercialisation of fluorinated aminoacids, peptides and precursors thereof
    Enterprise Ireland1 Nov 2018 - 15 Apr 2019
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Medicinal Chemistry, Bioisosterism and Catalysis of 5- hydroxytriazoles: a new class of modular and easy accessible ligands for synthesis and drug discovery
    Irish Research Council IRC1 Oct 2018 - 31 Jan 2022
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Development of a flow chemistry process for the manufacture of Paricalcitol
    Irish Research Council IRC1 Jan 2018 - 30 Apr 2021
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Development of enantioselective fluorination for 18F labelling of organic compounds: applications to labelling of drugs and agrochemical metabolites
    Irish Research Council IRC1 Jan 2018 - 30 Apr 2021
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Resubmission of proposal EID ChemComm
    Enterprise Ireland H2020 Support3 Nov 2017 - 17 Jan 2018
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Development and Application of a New Class of Halogenated Reagents to Commercially ValuableTargets
    EU Horizon 20201 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2022
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Development of novel non-invasive tools to diagnose coeliac disease
    Irish Research Council IRC1 Jan 2017 - 3 Jan 2020
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Application to H2020 EID
    Enterprise Ireland H2020 Support25 Oct 2016 - 25 Jul 2017
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    preparation of h2020 submission
    Enterprise Ireland H2020 Support4 Mar 2016 - 3 Dec 2016
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Development of green and cost efficient syntheses for anti HIV drugs pharmaceutical active ingredients Ritonavir and Darunavir
    Irish Research Council IRC1 Oct 2015 - 30 Sep 2018