Valentina Cuzzucoli Crucitti

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• workRoom C03 Coates Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Valentina.CuzzucoliCrucitti1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Valentina is born in Rome where she graduated with honour in 2016 in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Her master project was about the study of intermolecular interaction and the characterisation of abietic acid/chitosan solid dispersions possessing antimicrobial and antioxidant properties under the supervision of Dott. Iolanda Francolini.

She started her PhD as part of the 'Next Generation Biometarials Discovery' programme grant based in School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham. She joined the group in October 2016 and she has worked on the design and synthesis of amphiphilic copolymers with different 3D architectures and biological properties. These materials, thanks to an amphiphilic structure, exhibited the properties to be viable surfactants for the stabilisation of Oil-in-Water emulsion to produce microparticles in flow using a Flow Focusing microfluidic system. In 2021, she successfully passed her viva.

In February 2021 she started a new Research Followship founded by the BBSRC on the Development and exploitation of a bioactives-free technology for tackling fungal threats to food security, goods and health.

Recent Publications

• JACOB, PHILIPPA L, BRUGNOLI, BENEDETTA, DEL GIUDICE, ALESSANDRA, PHAN, HIEN, CHAUHAN, VEEREN M, BECKETT, LAURA, GILLIS, RICHARD B, MOLONEY, CARA, CAVANAGH, ROBERT J, KRUMINS, EDUARDS, REYNOLDS-GREEN, MORGAN, LENTZ, JOACHIM C, CONTE, CLAUDIA, CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, VALENTINA, COUTURAUD, BENOIT, GALANTINI, LUCIANO, FRANCOLINI, IOLANDA, HOWDLE, STEVEN M and TARESCO, VINCENZO, 2023. Poly (diglycerol adipate) variants as enhanced nanocarrier replacements in drug delivery applications. Journal of colloid and interface science. 641, 1043-1057
• CRAWFORD, L.A., CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, V., STIMPSON, A., MORGAN, C., BLAKE, J., WILDMAN, R.D., HOOK, A.L., ALEXANDER, M.R., IRVINE, D.J. and AVERY, S.V., 2023. A potential alternative to fungicides using actives-free (meth)acrylate polymers for protection of wheat crops from fungal attachment and infection. Green Chemistry. 25, 8558-8569
• LATIF, A., FISHER, L. E., DUNDAS, A. A., CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, V., IMIR, Z., LAWLER, K., PAPPALARDO, F., MUIR, B. W., WILDMAN, R., IRVINE, D. J., ALEXANDER, M. R. and GHAEMMAGHAMI, A. M., 2022. Microparticles Decorated with Cell-Instructive Surface Chemistries Actively Promote Wound Healing: Advanced Materials Advanced Materials.
• HENSHAW, C. A., DUNDAS, A. A., CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, V., ALEXANDER, M. R., WILDMAN, R., ROSE, F. R. A. J., IRVINE, D. J. and WILLIAMS, P. M., 2021. Droplet Microfluidic Optimisation Using Micropipette Characterisation of Bio-Instructive Polymeric Surfactants: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Molecules (Basel, Switzerland). 26(11),

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• JACOB, PHILIPPA L, BRUGNOLI, BENEDETTA, DEL GIUDICE, ALESSANDRA, PHAN, HIEN, CHAUHAN, VEEREN M, BECKETT, LAURA, GILLIS, RICHARD B, MOLONEY, CARA, CAVANAGH, ROBERT J, KRUMINS, EDUARDS, REYNOLDS-GREEN, MORGAN, LENTZ, JOACHIM C, CONTE, CLAUDIA, CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, VALENTINA, COUTURAUD, BENOIT, GALANTINI, LUCIANO, FRANCOLINI, IOLANDA, HOWDLE, STEVEN M and TARESCO, VINCENZO, 2023. Poly (diglycerol adipate) variants as enhanced nanocarrier replacements in drug delivery applications. Journal of colloid and interface science. 641, 1043-1057
• CRAWFORD, L.A., CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, V., STIMPSON, A., MORGAN, C., BLAKE, J., WILDMAN, R.D., HOOK, A.L., ALEXANDER, M.R., IRVINE, D.J. and AVERY, S.V., 2023. A potential alternative to fungicides using actives-free (meth)acrylate polymers for protection of wheat crops from fungal attachment and infection. Green Chemistry. 25, 8558-8569
• LATIF, A., FISHER, L. E., DUNDAS, A. A., CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, V., IMIR, Z., LAWLER, K., PAPPALARDO, F., MUIR, B. W., WILDMAN, R., IRVINE, D. J., ALEXANDER, M. R. and GHAEMMAGHAMI, A. M., 2022. Microparticles Decorated with Cell-Instructive Surface Chemistries Actively Promote Wound Healing: Advanced Materials Advanced Materials.
• HENSHAW, C. A., DUNDAS, A. A., CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, V., ALEXANDER, M. R., WILDMAN, R., ROSE, F. R. A. J., IRVINE, D. J. and WILLIAMS, P. M., 2021. Droplet Microfluidic Optimisation Using Micropipette Characterisation of Bio-Instructive Polymeric Surfactants: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Molecules (Basel, Switzerland). 26(11),
• VALENTINA CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, LEONARDO CONTREAS, VINCENZO TARESCO, SHAUN C HOWARD, ADAM A DUNDAS, MARION J LIMO, TAKASI NISISAKO, PHILIP M WILLIAMS, PAUL WILLIAMS, MORGAN R ALEXANDER, RICKY D WILDMAN, BENJAMIN W MUIR and DEREK J IRVINE, 2021. Generation and Characterization of a Library of Novel Biologically Active Functional Surfactants (Surfmers) Using Combined High-Throughput Methods ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021..
• DUNDAS, A. A., KERN, S., CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, V., SCURR, D. J., WILDMAN, R., IRVINE, D. J. and ALEXANDER, M. R., 2021. A new particle mounting method for surface analysis: Surface and Interface Analysis Surface and Interface Analysis.
• VALLIERES, C, HOOK, AL, HE, Y, CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, V, FIGUEREDO, G, DAVIES, CR, BURROUGHS, L, WINKLER, DA, WILDMAN, RD, IRVINE, DJ, ALEXANDER, MR and AVERY, SV, 2020. Discovery of (meth) acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration. Science Advances. 6, eaba6574
• DUNDAS, ADAM A., CRUCITTI, VALENTINA CUZZUCOLI, HAAS, SIMON, DUBERN, JEAN-FREDERIC, LATIF, ARSALAN, ROMERO, MANUEL, SANNI, OLUTOBA, GHAEMMAGHAMI, AMIR M., WILLIAMS, PAUL, ALEXANDER, MORGAN R., WILDMAN, RICKY and IRVINE, DEREK J., 2020. Achieving Microparticles with Cell-Instructive Surface Chemistry by Using Tunable Co-Polymer Surfactants ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS.
• ALVAREZ-PAINO M, AMER MH, NASIR A, CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI V, THORPE J, BURROUGHS L, NEEDHAM D, DENNING C, ALEXANDER MR, ALEXANDER C and ROSE FRAJ, 2019. Polymer Microparticles with Defined Surface Chemistry and Topography Mediate the Formation of Stem Cell Aggregates and Cardiomyocyte Function. ACS applied materials & interfaces. (In Press.)
• VASEY, CATHERINE E., PEARCE, AMANDA K., SODANO, FEDERICA, CAVANAGH, ROBERT, ABELHA, THAIS, CRUCITTI, VALENTINA CUZZUCOLI, ANANE-ADJEI, AKOSUA B., ASHFORD, MARIANNE, GELLERT, PAUL, TARESCO, VINCENZO and ALEXANDER, CAMERON, 2019. Amphiphilic tri- and tetra-block co-polymers combining versatile functionality with facile assembly into cytocompatible nanoparticles BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE. 7(9), 3832-3845
• PEARCE, A. K., VASEY, C. E., ANANE-ADJEI, A. B., SODANO, F., CRUCITTI, V. C., IRVINE, D. J., HOWDLE, S. M., ALEXANDER, C. and TARESCO, V., 2019. Versatile, Highly Controlled Synthesis of Hybrid (Meth)acrylate–Polyester–Carbonates and their Exploitation in Tandem Post-Polymerization–Functionalization: Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics.
• VALENTINA CUZZUCOLI CRUCITTI, LUISA MARIA MIGNECO, ANTONELLA PIOZZI, VINCENZO TARESCO, MARTIN GARNETT, RICHARD H. ARGENT and IOLANDA FRANCOLINI, 2018. Intermolecular interaction and solid state characterization of abietic acid/chitosan solid dispersions possessing antimicrobial and antioxidant properties European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. 125, 114-123