Michele Vendruscolo

Michele Vendruscolo (born in Udine, 23 July 1966) is an Italian British physicist working in the UK, noted for his theoretical and experimental work on protein folding, misfolding and aggregation.

Education Vendruscolo is a graduate in physics of the University of Trieste (Italy). He received a Master of Science (MSc) and a PhD in condensed matter physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy. He is also Director of Chemistry of Health, and Co-Director of the Centre for Misfolding Diseases at the University of Cambridge.

Vendruscolo provided contributions in the field of protein folding, misfolding and aggregation. He edited computational programs able to predict essential characteristics of protein folding and protein aggregation. In a collaboration with other scholars he dissected the process of Amyloid fibril formation in its microscopic steps and computed programs to analyse experimental kinetic time courses and study effects of Small molecules and other agents.

Awards and honors Election to EMBO Young Investigator program, European Molecular Biology Organization, 2008 Soft Matter & Biophysical Chemistry Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013 Election to member of Academia Europaea, 2017 Awarded Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize, 2017 Rita and John Cornforth Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019