Publications

Articles and Reviews

  • Francesca Picco, Lynda Zeboudj, Silvia Oggero, Vincenzo Prato, Thomas Burgoyne, Nikita Gamper, and Marzia Malcangio. Macrophage to neuron communication via extracellular vesicles in neuropathic pain conditions. Cell/Heliyon 2025. Link to publication: https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(24)17299-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2405844024172994%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
  • Federica Carolina Balestrero, Laura Gioiello, Georgia Goutsiou, Sabina Sangaletti, Rita Maria Concetta Di Martino, Fabrizio Condorelli, Ambra A. Grolla, and Tracey Pirali. Versatile One-Pot Synthesis of Hydrophobic Tags by Multicomponent Reactions. ACS Omega 2025. Link to publication: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.4c09726
  • Xinmeng Li, Arthur Silveira Prudente, Vincenzo Prato, Xianchuan Guo, Han Hao, Frederick Jones, Sofia Figoli, Pierce Mullen, Yujin Wang, Raquel Tonello, Sang Hoon Lee, Shihab Shah, Benito Maffei, Temugin Berta, Xiaona Du, Nikita Gamper. Peripheral gating of mechanosensation by glial diazepam binding inhibitor. J Clin Invest, 2024 Jun 18. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38888973/
  • Angela Lamberti, Marta Serafini, Silvio Aprile , Irene Preet Bhela, Georgia Goutsiou, Emanuela Pessolano, Gregorio Fernandez-Ballester, Antonio Ferrer-Montiel, Rita Maria Concetta Di Martino, Asia Fernandez-Carvajal, and Tracey Pirali. The multicomponent Passerini reaction as a means of accessing diversity in structure, activity and properties: Soft and hard vanilloid/ cannabinoid modulators. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024. Link to publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39265249/
  • Marco Bertolini, Lorena Mendive-Tapia, Ouldouz Ghashghaei, Abigail Reese, Charles Lochenie, Anna M. Schoepf, Miquel Sintes, Karolina Tokarczyk, Zandile Nare, Andrew D. Scott, Stephen R. Knight, Advait R. Aithal, Amit Sachdeva, Rodolfo Lavilla, and Marc Vendrell. Nonperturbative Fluorogenic Labeling of Immunophilins Enables the Wash-free Detection of Immunosuppressants. ACS Central Science. 2024. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38799658/. Link to publication: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01590
  • Marco Bertolini, Lorena Mendive-Tapia, Utsa Karmakar and Marc Vendrell. Chemo-Click: Receptor-Controlled and Bioorthogonal Chemokine Ligation for Real-Time Imaging of Drug-Resistant Leukemic B Cells. Journal of American Chemical Society, 2024. Link to publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39441736/
  • Charles Lochenie, Sheelagh Duncan, Yanzi Zhou, Leonie Fingerhut, Alex Kiang,Sam Benson, Guanyu Jiang, Xiaogang Liu, Bethany Mills, and Marc Vendrell. Photosensitizer-Amplified Antimicrobial Materials for Broad-Spectrum Ablation of Resistant Pathogens in Ocular Infections. Advanced Materials, 2024. Link to publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38762778/
  • Simona Giorgi, Angela Lamberti, Laura Butrón, Olivia Gross-Amat, David Alarcón-Alarcón, Enrique Rodriguez-Cañas, Asia Fernandez-Carvajal, and Antonio Ferrer-Montiel. Compartmentalized primary cultures of dorsal root ganglion neurons to model peripheral pathophysiological conditions. Sage journals, Molecular pain. 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37578145/. Link to publication: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17448069231197102?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.2
  • Marco Bertolini, M Wong, L Mendive-Tapia, M Vendrell. Smart probes for optical imaging of T cells and screening of anti-cancer immunotherapies. Chem Soc Rev. 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37376918/. Link to publication: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/CS/D2CS00928E
  • Zeboudj L, Sideris-Lampretsas G, Silva R, Al-Mudaris A, PICCO Francesca, Fox S, Chambers D, Malcangio M. Silencing miR-21-5p in sensory neurons reverses neuropathic allodynia via activation of TGFB-related pathway in macrophages. J Clin Invest. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI164472. Link to publication: https://www.jci.org/articles/view/164472
  • SALATHIA S, Gigliobianco MR, Casadidio C, Di Martino P, Censi R. Hyaluronic Acid-Based Nanosystems for CD44 Mediated Anti- Inflammatory and Antinociceptive Activity Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24(8), 7286; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24087286. REVIEW  Link to publication: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/8/7286 
  • Barth ND, Van Dalen FJ, Karmakar U, BERTOLINI M, Mendive-Tapia L, Kitamura T, Verdoes M, Vendrell M. Enzyme-Activatable Chemokine Conjugates for In Vivo Targeting of Tumor-Associated Macrophages. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2022 Oct 10;61(41):e202207508. doi: 10.1002/anie.202207508. Epub 2022 Sep 5. PMID: 35993914. Link to publication: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202207508

Conference proceedings

  • GEORGIA GOUTSIOU, Rita MC Di Martino, Asia Fernandez-Carvajal, Antonio Ferrer-Montiel, Tracey Pirali Combining soft drug concept and PROTAC technology as a safer treatment for neuropathic pain. 7th RSC-BMCS / SCI – Symposium on Ion Channels as Therapeutic Targets, 27-28 March 2023, Cambridge (UK)
  • ANGELA LAMBERTI. Asia Fernandez Carvajal, Antonio Ferrer-Montiel Thermo TRP ion channels as a key molecular and functional landmark for chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain. 7th RSC-BMCS / SCI – Symposium on Ion Channels as Therapeutic Targets, 27-28 March 2023, Cambridge (UK)
  • PICCO F, Oggero S, Silva R, Zeboudj L, Malcangio M. Pro-inflammatory macrophages communicate with dorsal root ganglia neurons through miR-155 enriched extracellular vescicles. UKEV Forum 2022, 1-2 December 2022, Edinburgh (UK)
  • LAMBERTI A, Fernandez Carvajai A, Ferrer Montiel A. Los canales ionicos thermo TRP como clave molecular y funcional para la transduccion del dolor neuropatico en las neuronas somatosensoriales. XVI San Alberto Magno Congress. 16 November 2022, Elche – Alicante (Spain)
  • SALATHIA S. Gigliobianco MR, Censi R, Di Martino P. Hyaluronic Acid-Coated PLGA-Based Nanosystem for CD-44 Mediated Antinociceptive Activity. EPNOE workshop Polysaccharides for drug delivery – on the road to innovation. 27-28 October 2022, Rome (Italy)
  • GOUTSIOU G, Ranza A, Fernandez Carvajai A, Ferrer Montiel A, Pirali T. Combining Soft drug concept and protac technology to safely threat neuropathic pain. 41st ESMEC – European School for Medicinal Chemistry. 3-7 July 2022. Urbino (Italy)
  • LAMBERTI A, Fernandez Carvajai A, Ferrer Montiel A. Thermo TRP ion channels as a key molecular and functional landmark for neuropathic pain transduction in subsets of somatosensory neurons. VIII Congress of the Spanish Network on Ion Channels. 24-27 May 2022, San Juan – Alicante (Spain)
  • SAMOL Z. Nanoparticle-based imaging and therapy of chronic pain in the dorsal root ganglia. 13th International Symposium on Polymer Therapeutics: from Laboratory to Clinical Practice. 23-24 May 2022, Valencia (Spain)
  • BOSSONS N. The gating mechanism of TRPV2: a quest towards effective modulators. ACORN Conference. 13-15 October 2021, Praia Verde, Portugal.