EuMelaNet


EuMelaNet Members:

 

Name Institution Expertise
Marco d'Ischia (*) University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Structural characterization of natural and synthetic melanin pigments
5,6-dihydroxyindole chemistry
Alessandra Napolitano University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Melanin analysis
Pheomelanins structuere and biosynthesis
Cysteinyldopas
Alessandro Pezzella University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Structural characterization of melanin pigments
Design, synthesis and polymerization of novel 5,6-dihydroxyindole derivatives
Melanin inspired organo-electronic functional materials
Lionel Larue Institut Curie, Orsay, France (ESPCR President)
Lluís Montoliu CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain Melanin and L-DOPA mediated effects on vision (retina development) and hearing (hearing loss) in albinism using animal models
Ghanem Ghanem LOCE - Institut Jules Bordet, Univ. Libre Bruxelles, Belgium Melanin interaction with drugs and ionizing radiations. Melanin measurement. Cellular models for melanin modulation.
Mauro Picardo San Gallicano Dermatological Institute, Rome, Italy analyses of melanins
photo protective and photo aggarvated effect of melanins
Maeda Kazuhisa Tokyo University of Technology, Japan Research and development of the whitening ingredient for cosmetics
Study of its mechanism on melanogenesis
Julian M Menter Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA Melanin Chemistry
Melanin Photobiology
Shosuke Ito Department of Chemistry, Fujita Health University School of Health Sciences, Toyoake, Japan Chemistry of melanogenesis;
Chemical assays of eumelanin, pheomelanin, and related metabolites
Kazumasa Wakamatsu Department of Chemistry, Fujita Health University School of Health Sciences, Toyoake, Japan Chemistry of melanogenesis;
Chemical assays of eumelanin, pheomelanin, and related metabolites
Clara Santato Polytechnique Montréal, Canada Study the charge transport properties (ionic and electronic) of melanin films for
potential optoelectronic applications.
John Simon Duke University, USA melanin structure, photoreactivity, melanosome surface properties
Tadeusz Sarna Jagiellonian University, Department of Biophysics, Krakow, Poland Characterization of biophysical properties of natural melanin pigments; age-related
changes of retinal pigment epithelium melanin; photoreactivity and photoprotective
properties of eumelanins and pheomelanins
José Carlos García-Borrón University of Murcia, Spain melanogenic enzymes, melanocortin receptors

(*) Scientific Coordinator of EuMelaNet

Last update: July 12, 2010

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