Prof. Dr. Paola Picotti
Prof. Dr. Paola Picotti
Full Professor at the Department of Biology
Head of Institute for Molecular Systems Biology
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Research area
Paola Picotti’s team uses advanced targeted proteomic and phosphoproteomic methods to study protein misfolding and aggregation in cells.
After her PhD at the University of Padua (Italy), Paola Picotti joined as a postdoc the group of Ruedi Aebersold at ETH Zurich, where she developed targeted proteomic technologies based on mass spectrometry. In 2011, she was appointed Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biochemistry of ETHZ and in 2017 tenured Associate Professor at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETHZ.
Major contributions of the Picotti group include the development of structural proteomics technologies to probe in situ protein structural changes, the characterization of the determinants of proteome thermostability, the large-scale identification of protein small molecule interactions and the discovery of regulators of toxic proteins involved in Parkinson’s disease.
Dr. Picotti was awarded the Latsis Prize, the Cotter Award of the US HUPO, the SGMS award, the EMBO Young Investigator Award, the Friedrich Miescher Award, the Juan- Pablo Albar award of the European Proteome Association, an ERC Starting grant, an ERC Consolidator Grant and the EMBO Gold Medal.
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Election to the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) |
| 2020 | Rössler Prize, ETH Zurich |
| 2019 | EMBO Gold Medal |
| 2018 | Friedrich-Miescher Award |
| 2018 | Juan Pablo Albar “Protein Pioneer” Award, European Proteome Organization |
| 2016 | EMBO Young Investigator Award |
| 2016 | Robert J. Cotter Award, American Human Proteome Organization |
| 2016 | SGMS Award for independent research in the field of MS |
| 2011 | ETH Zurich Latsis Prize |
| 2008 | ERG-FP7 Reintegration Grant of the European Research Council |
| 2007 | Marie Curie Grant |
Additional information
Professor Picotti holds three patents.
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 551-0130-00L | Fundamentals of Biology II |
| 551-0224-00L | Advanced Proteomics |
| 551-0324-00L | Systems Biology |