Department of Chemistry

Chemistry and Health

People’s health and quality of life are the basis of an active and dynamic society. Knowledge of human metabolism, as well as development of new medicines, innovative therapies and new techniques for diagnostics, is fundamental for the well-being of our society.

Chemistry and biochemistry are the basis of metabolic processes that regulate life, health and modern medicine. Thus, by modifying something infinitely small such as a molecule, one can produce effects at a macroscopic level in both chemical and biochemical terms. In this context, the challenge that the Department of Chemistry of the University of Torino poses itself is to improve people’s health and quality of life by producing innovation at the intersection of chemistry, medicine, pharmaceutics, biology, nanotechnology and materials science. This is made possible by the development of innovative technologies and tools that, beyond addressing the scientific community and the whole society, are intimately correlated to the industrial world, through several contracts and agreements with local and international companies, involved in the field of public health.

In particular, the research activity aims at finding new solutions for therapeutics, diagnostics, theranostics and toxicological analysis, with a three-pronged goal: ethical (therapeutic efficacy, high tolerability…), scientific (excellence and innovation) and economic (know-how transfer, support to industries).

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