Current Interests

• Peptide chemistry and design
• Synthetic and physical organic chemistry
• Chiroptical and NMR spectroscopy
• Cell biology

Biography

Angelo Bella joined NPL after receiving his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Leicester in 2011. His main research area is peptide design and synthesis focused on the development of novel peptide-based therapeutics, diagnostics and self-assembling materials.

Recent Publications

• Arbitrary self-assembly of extracellular microscopic matrices
  A. Bella, S. Ray, M. Shaw, M. G. Ryadnov
  Angew. Ch. Int. Ed., 51, pages 428-431 (2012)
• Assessment of structurally diverse philanthotoxin analogues for inhibitory activity on ionotropic 2 glutamate receptor subtypes: discovery of nanomolar, nonselective, and use-dependent antagonists
  S. Frølund, A. Bella, A. S. Kristensen, H. L. Ziegler, M. Witt, C. A. Olsen, K. Strømgaard, H. Franzyk, and J. W. Jaroszewski
  J. Med Chem., 53, pages 7441–7451 (2010)
• Conformationally constrained mimetics of laminin peptide YIGSR as precursors for antimetastatic disintegrins
  A. Bella, H. Lewis, J. Phu, A. R. Botrill, S. C. Mistry, C. E. Pullar and M. G. Ryadnov
  J. Med. Chem, 52, pages 7966–7969 (2009)
• Modular design of peptide fibrillar nano-to microstructures
  M. G. Ryadnov, A. Bella, S. Timson and D. N. Woolfson
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, pages 13240-13241 (2009)

Contact details

E-mail: angelo.bella@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 6911