Name
Umberto Battisti, PhD

Position
Co-founder & CSO
Information
Dr. Umberto Battisti has a decennial experience in organic chemistry and in medicinal chemistry. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as an Assistant professor at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry of the University of Copenhagen, with a focus on bioorthogonal chemistry for in vivo PET imaging probes. In this role, he was involved in developing the chemistry necessary for the development of the TetraKit labeling technology. Before moving to Copenhagen, he worked at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and at Virginia Commonwealth University (USA) as a senior researcher in medicinal chemistry. Dr. Battisti obtained his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), where he also worked for 3 years as a postdoc. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers and reviews and he is a co-inventor on 4 patents.