Education

  • 06/2017 – present:    PhD student in Prof. Dr. Luciani’s Group
    Thesis: Lipid-based therapeutics for liver fibrosis and their impact on extracellular vesicles
    • 04/2019 – present:    Pharmaceutical Technology Group, 
      Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry / Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (since 01/2021), University of Bern, Switzerland
    • 06/2017 – 03/2019:    Phospholipids in Drug Development Group,
      Department of Pharmaceutical Technologies, Institute of Pharmacy
      Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
      In collaboration with Fuhrmann Lab, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (HIPS), Saarbrücken, Germany
  • 07/2015:    Summer school “Organic Molecules: experiments and theory meet at the surface„
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  • 2010 – 2016:    Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Master thesis: “Synthesis of a Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe to Image Reactive Oxygen Species during Inflammatory Responses, and Stimulant-Induced Oxidative Stress in Cell Monolayers„
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ), Switzerland
  • 02/2010:    Research project in chemistry and material sciences with Schweizer Jugend Forscht (SJF):
    “Quantification study of a UV-active block copolymer and its self-organized structures„
    University of Basel, Switzerland

 

Work Experience

  • 12/2016 – 05/2017:    Guest scientist in Prof. Dr. Luciani’s Phospholipids in Drug Development Group,
    Department of Pharmaceutical Technologies, Institute of Pharmacy
    Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Germany
  • 2015 – 2016:    Internship in a public pharmacy
    Coop Vitality Apotheke Letzipark, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2013 – 2016:    Examination proctor
    Cambridge English Examinations Centre Zürich/Winterthur, Switzerland

Posters and Oral Presentations

  • Valentino G, Zivko C; Brülisauer L; Luciani P 
    Antifibrotic activity of phospholipid-based formulations on human immortalized hepatic stellate cells 
    11th World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Granada, Spain, 2018
  • Zivko, C; Valentino, G; Fuhrmann, K; Fuhrmann, G; Luciani, P
    Extracellular vesicles isolation from activated and quiescent LX-2 human hepatic stellate cells
    CRS Local Chapter Germany Meeting, Halle, Germany, 2018 
  • Valentino G, Zivko C; Brülisauer L; Luciani P 
    Antifibrotic impact of phospholipid-based formulations on the activated human hepatic stellate cell line LX-2
    CRS Local Chapter Germany Meeting, Halle, Germany, 2018 
  • Zivko, C; Valentino, G; Fuhrmann, K; Fuhrmann, G; Luciani, P
    Characterization of extracellular vesicles from LX-2 human hepatic stellate cell line
    DPhG annual meeting, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2017
  • Valentino G, Zivko C; Brülisauer L; Luciani P 
    Impact of phospholipid-based formulations on the activated human hepatic stellate cell line LX-2
    DPhG annual meeting, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2017
  • Zivko, C; Valentino, G; Fuhrmann, K; Fuhrmann, G; Luciani, P
    Isolation and profiling of extracellular vesicles from hepatic stellate cells
    5th International Symposium on Phospholipids in Pharmaceutical Research, Heidelberg, Germany, 2017
  • Valentino G, Zivko C; Brülisauer L; Luciani P
    Antifibrotic effect of phospholipid-based formulations on human hepatic stellate cells
    5th International Symposium on Phospholipids in Pharmaceutical Research, Heidelberg, Germany, 2017

Publications

  • Andina D, Brambilla D, Frei J, Munzinger N, Zivko C, Leroux JC*, Luciani P*. Development of a Modular Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe for the Detection of Extracellular Superoxide. Chem. Eur. J. (2017), 23:4765-4769.  Selected as “Hot Topic” by Wiley-VCH. Highlighted in www.chemistryviews.org.