Federico Corti PhD, MS

Federico Corti, PhD is an Associate Research Scientist in the laboratory of Professor Michael Simons at the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Dr. Corti’s research aims to improve our fundamental knowledge of protein glycosylation and how this translates to physiological and pathological states. Recently, he has shown for the first time that certain protein motifs are able to regulate heparan sulfate biosynthesis in order to achieve specific biological functions.

Dr. Corti has also made significant contributions demonstrating the critical role of syndecans (a class of proteoglycans) in various biological processes such as inflammation, atherosclerosis and angiogenesis with publications in JBC, PNAS and Nature Communications. Federico received his M.Sc. in Medicinal Chemistry and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from University of Siena (Italy).