AFFILIATION:
Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry
University of Florence

ADDRESS:
Via L. Sacconi 6
50019 Sesto Fiorentino, (FI) -Italy

CONTACTS:
Tel: +39 055 4574266
e-mail: turano[at]cerm.unifi.it ; paola.turano[at]unifi.it

RESEARCH PROFILES:
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Google scholar profile
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Paola Turano received her PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Florence in 1993 and subsequently joined the laboratory of Professor Harry B. Gray at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a Visiting Associate (1993–1994). She has been Full Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Florence since 2021 and was appointed Director of the Center for Magnetic Resonance (CERM) in 2023.
Her research focuses on the application of NMR spectroscopy to the study of biomolecular systems, spanning protein structural biology, biofluid and cell metabolomics, and the characterization of metal-based therapeutics.
She has served as Principal Investigator of research units in several national and international collaborative projects, including the EU-funded SPIDIA and SPIDIA4P projects and the Tuscany Region COMETA project.
Professor Turano has received several distinctions, including the Raffaello Nasini Medal (2003) and the 2023 Joint Gold Medal of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and the Italian Group for Magnetic Resonance (GIDRM). She served as President of the EuChemS Division of Chemistry and Life Sciences (2012–2014) and as a Council Member of SBIC (2008-2012); currently she serves on the SBIC Nominations Committee.

RESEARCH FIELDS:

Large Systems, SS-NMR, Metabolomics, Biobanking

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

G. Meoni, Tenori, L; Schade, S; Licari, C; Pirazzini, C; Bacalini, MG; Garagnani, P; Turano, P; Trenkwalder, C; Franceschi, C; Mollenhauer, B; Luchinat, C (2022). Metabolite and lipoprotein profiles reveal sex-related oxidative stress imbalance in de novo drug-naive Parkinson's disease patients. NPJ PARKINSON'S DISEASE, vol. 8, pp. 1-10

E. Perrin, V. Ghini, M. Giovannini, F. Di Patti, B. Cardazzo, L. Carraro, C. Fagorzi, P. Turano, R. Fani, M. Fondi (2020). Diauxie and co-utilization of carbon sources can coexist during bacterial growth in nutritionally complex environments. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 11, pp. 3135-3151, ISSN:2041-1723

A. Vignoli, V. Ghini, G. Meoni, C. Licari, P.G Takis, L. Tenori, P. Turano, C. Luchinat, (2019). High-throughput metabolomics by 1D NMR. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE. INTERNATIONAL EDITION, vol. 58, pp. 968-994

B. Moreno-Beltrán, A. Guerra-Castellano, A. Díaz-Quintana, R. Del Conte, S.M. García-Mauriño, S. Díaz-Moreno, K. González-Arzola, C. Santos-Ocaña, A. Velázquez-Campoy, M. A. De la Rosa, P. Turano, I. Díaz-Moreno, (2017). Structural basis of mitochondrial dysfunction in response to cytochrome c phosphorylation at tyrosine 48. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, vol. 114, pp. E3041- -E3050

E. Ravera, S. Ciambellotti, L. Cerofolini, T. Martelli, T. Kozyreva, C. Bernacchioni, S. Giuntini, M. Fragai, P. Turan, C. Luchinat (2016). Solid-State NMR of PEGylated Proteins. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE. INTERNATIONAL EDITION, vol. 55, p. 2446-9-2449