Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy
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Marco Macchia graduated with honors in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Pisa in 1991, after working and thesis development in England at the multinational pharmaceutical company SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline). He then received his PhD in "Chimica del Farmaco"(Pharmaceutical Chemistry) and has been a Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy since 2001.
He was honoured with the Ordine del Cherubino in 2022.
Institutional assignments
From 2002 to 2009 he was the Director of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Socio-Environmental Analytical Toxicology, from 2012 to 2018 the Director of the Master's Degree Programme in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, from 2007 to 2012 the Deputy Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and from 2013 to 2018 the Deputy Director of the Interdepartmental Research Centre "Nutraceuticals and Food for Health - NUTRAFOOD" at the University of Pisa. He also promoted and directed the second-level university postgraduate programmes in "Pharmacy System" (a.y. 2006-2007) and in "Regulatory Activities: Medicines, Health Products, Advanced Therapies, REACH" (a.y. 2009-2010).
Since 2017 he is the Director of the European School of Medicinal Chemistry (ESMEC) for European PhD students and junior researcher in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry.
He has been a member of the FIGC Federal Anti-Doping Commission since 2021, and from 2017 to 2018 he was a member of the Technical Health Committee of the Ministry of Health - Section for the Supervision and Control of Doping and the Protection of Health in Sports Activities.
Since 2022 he has been a member of the experts’ board for the development of quality and safety nutrition initiatives, established at the Ministry of Health
Throughout his career, he has always fostered the relationships between the University, other institutions and the working world; since 2011 he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Tuscan Life Sciences District of the Regione Toscana as a representative of the University of Pisa, and since 2015 he has been President of the Technical Scientific Committee of the “Vita” Foundation - ITS Technical College for New Life Technologies. From 2010 to 2022 he was also President of ASIS, Association of Studies on the Health Industry, a nonprofit association recognized by the Regione Toscana.
Scientific and teaching activities
Professor Macchia teaches Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry for the Master’s Degree Programme in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology.
His highly multidisciplinary research activities, carried out also in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies of international significance and numerous national and international research groups, have resulted in more than 190 publications on prestigious international journals and 6 international patents.
His research activities mainly concern the design and synthesis of innovative molecules for the diagnosis and therapy of various diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, the development and application of analytical methods in the pharmaceutical, toxicological, and toxicological-forensic fields, as well as research in the nutraceutical-food field. Recently, his research has also aimed at the development of both in silico and in vitro experimental protocols for the gene therapy validation.