Principal Research Scientist at Merck KGaA
Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
- Current
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- Principal Research Scientist at Merck Serono
- Expert at European Commission
- Principal Research Scientist at Merck KGaA
- Past
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- Senior Scientific Consultant at EMBL Heidelberg
- Scientific User Consultant at EMBL
- Senior Research Assistant at National Cancer Institute Frederick
- Esperto regionale at Associazione Nazionale Allevatori di razza Pezzata Rossa Italiana
- Visiting Student at Weizmann Institute
- Visiting Student at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Visiting Student at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Summer Student at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Carabiniere Ausiliario at Arma dei Carabinieri
- Education
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- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
- Università degli Studi di Udine
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Luca Toldo’s Summary
Communicating with scientists, facilitating their seek for discovery.
Exploit state of the art IT technologies in order to advance knowledge discovery has always been my deep interest. Through a quarter of century , from my very first job as fertility expert for cows (18), until now (43), I always tried to exploit computational methods on practical tasks. I always enjoyed knowing about "practical needs", and as well explore latest numerical and AI techniques. My native acquaintance with the keyboard drove me always closer to computers, and made me a programmer in a wide variety of languages. My curiosity had rarely been satisfied by "helicopter views", and therefore I always needed to dive deep in the details of the implementations. That's me: interested in helping people, exploiting the skills I got.
Luca Toldo’s Specialties:
Knowledge Discovery, Bioinformatics, Chemoinformatics, Drug design, Knowledge extraction, Knowledge visualisation, Text Mining, Knowledge Management, Ontologies, Project Management
Luca Toldo’s Experience
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Principal Research Scientist
Merck Serono
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
Research Knowledge Management
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Expert
European Commission
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry)
April 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)
Evaluation and review of projects in FP6 and in FP7
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Principal Research Scientist
Merck KGaA
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MRK; Pharmaceuticals industry)
April 1997 — Present (11 years 8 months)
R&D in Bioinformatics
R&D in text mining and knowledge discovery
R&D in Data Mining and knowledge visualisation -
Senior Scientific Consultant
EMBL Heidelberg
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
November 1994 — April 1997 (2 years 6 months)
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Scientific User Consultant
EMBL
(Pharmaceuticals industry)
1994 — 1997 (3 years)
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Senior Research Assistant
National Cancer Institute Frederick
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
January 1990 — July 1990 (7 months)
Crystallisation of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus Integrase
Crystallisation of DNA-drug complexes
Development of mathematical models of two-site immunoassays -
Esperto regionale
Associazione Nazionale Allevatori di razza Pezzata Rossa Italiana
(Veterinary industry)
1983 — 1989 (6 years)
Morphological evaluation of cows, mating recommandations for improvement of the genetic breeds
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Visiting Student
Weizmann Institute
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
November 1989 — November 1989 (1 month)
Refinement of threedimensional models of immunogenic surfaces, from epitope mapping studies.
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Visiting Student
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
June 1989 — September 1989 (4 months)
Development of non-radioactive immunoassays against Progesteron
Mathematical model of two-site epitope mapping studies -
Visiting Student
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
June 1988 — September 1988 (4 months)
Development of non radioactive immunoasays against Progestern and Corticosterol
Mathematical analysis of two-site immunoassays experiments -
Summer Student
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
June 1987 — September 1987 (4 months)
Purification of monoclonal antibodies.
Development of two-site Immuno assays against Growth Hormone -
Carabiniere Ausiliario
Arma dei Carabinieri
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
February 1985 — January 1986 (1 year)
Office support in Reparto Comando, Comando Regione.
Luca Toldo’s Education
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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
PH.D., Molecular Biology & Biophysics, 1990 — 1994
- Activities and Societies:
- Purification and subsequent crystallisation of nucleosome core particles from chicken blood erythrocytes
Purification and crystallisation of histone octamer from chicken blood erythrocytes
Site directed mutagenesis of histones
DNA cloning
Crystallographic work
Development of low-temperature handling robots for crystallographic slow cooling
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Università degli Studi di Udine
Dottore, Agronomy, 1984 — 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- Development of immunoassay techniques: from RIA to DELPHIA with application in animal productions.
Development of a novel method for analysis of information from 2-Site epitope mapping studies
Additional Information
Luca Toldo’s Websites:
Luca Toldo’s Interests:
Data Mining in pharmaceutically-relevant data (e.g. Pre-clinical, Clinical, Production, Sales and Marketing); Knowledge Management and Knowledge Discovery; Ontology engineering; Reasoning.
Luca Toldo’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- job inquiries
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