Gabriele meloni

Gabriele was born in Italy and obtained a technical degree in Chemistry and M.S. in Biotechnology from the University of Milan.
Subsequently, he expanded his interest to the chemistry of metals in biological systems and obtained a Ph.D in Bioinorganic chemistry (with Prof. Milan Vasak) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
He continued his research investigating the chemistry and structural biology of metal transmembrane transporters at the California Institute of Technology (with Prof. Douglas C. Rees) and Aarhus University (with Prof. Poul Nissen).
He joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas as Assistant Professor in 2015, where he is now an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. 

Education
2014 - 2015     California Institute of Technology, CA, USA - Scientist    
2013 - 2014     Aarhus University, Denmark - Postdoc
2009 - 2013     California Institute of Technology, CA, USA - Postdoc 
2007 - 2009     University of Zurich, Switzerland - Postdoc
2003 - 2007     University of Zurich, Switzerland - Ph.D., Biochemistry and Bioinorganic Chemistry
1996 - 2002     University of Milan, Italy - M.S., Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
1995                J. Monnet Institute, Italy - Technical degree in Chemistry

Awards
2024 - 2028     Maximizing Investigator Research Award (MIRA), NIGMS, NIH
2023​                Federal Research Innovation and Expeditures Dynamo (FRIEND) Award, Office of Research, UT Dallas
2021 - 2026     NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation   
2021 - 2024     Robert A. Welch Research Grant recipient 
2020                New talent: Americas; Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry​
2018 - 2023     Maximizing Investigator Research Award (MIRA), NIGMS, NIH
2017 - 2020     Robert A. Welch Research Grant recipient ​
2011 - 2014     Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship Award, European Commission      
2009 - 2011     Fellowship for Prospective Researchers, SNSF, Switzerland
2008                Swiss Chemical Society presentation prize in Medicinal Chemistry
2007 - 2008     Research grant award, Support of Young Scientists, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland 
2006, 2008      Swiss Society of Biochemistry Travel Awards, Switzerland
2003                Zampese Award for M.Sc. with honors, CRA Bank, Italy
2002                Summa cum laude, University of Milan, Italy