Address: Donostia International Physics Center
Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea, 4, 20018 Donostia, Spain
Email: lsalassa@dipc.org
Phone: +34 943 018957
Personal Website: https://lucasalassa.wixsite.com/salassa
Research Career
| 2017-Present
2012-2016 2008-2011 2007-2008 2007 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004 |
DIPC/UPV-EHU (Spain), Ikerbasque Professor
CIC biomaGUNE (Spain), Ramón y Cajal Fellow University of Warwick (UK), Marie Curie-IEF / Postdoctoral Fellow University of Turin (Italy), Postdoctoral Fellow University of Montana (USA), Visiting scholar Novi-Elah-Dufour (Italy), Research and Development (Industry) University of Montana (USA), Postdoctoral Fellow University of Turin (Italy), PhD in Chemistry |
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2112-9095
Researcher ID: M-7300-2014
Scopus Author ID: 6507469245
Research interests
Photoactivatable anticancer metal complexes
Bioinorganic chemistry
Photochemistry, experimental and computational
Upconverting nanomaterials
Selected recent publications
Ruggiero, E.; Alonso-de Castro, S.; Habtemariam, A.; Salassa, L.; “Upconverting Nanoparticles For The Near Infrared Photoactivation Of Transition Metal Complexes: New Opportunities And Challenges In Medicinal Inorganic Photochemistry”, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 13012-13020.
Ruggiero, E.; Hernández-Gil, J.; Mareque-Rivas, J. C.; Salassa, L.; “Near Infrared Activation of an Anticancer PtIV Complex by Tm-Doped Upconverting Nanoparticles”, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 2091-2094.
Laskay, Ü. A.; Garino, C.; Tsybin, Y. O.; Salassa, L.; Casini, A.; “Gold fingers motives formation studied via high-resolution mass spectrometry and in-silico methods”, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 1612-1615.
Infante, I.; Azpiroz, J. M.; Gomez Blanco, N.; Ugalde, J. M.; Mareque-Rivas, J. C.; Salassa, L.; “Quantum Dot Photoactivation of Pt(IV) Anticancer Agents: Evidence of an Electron Transfer Mechanism Driven by Electronic Coupling”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118, 8712-8721.
Borfecchia, E.; Garino, C.; Salassa, L.; Ruiu,T.; Gianolio, D.; Zhang, X.; Attenkofer, K.; Chen L. X.;Gobetto, R.; Sadler, P. J.; Lamberti, C. “Picosecond Photoinduced Ligand Dissociation from cis-[Ru(bpy)2(py)2]2+: X-Ray Transient Absorption Structural Characterization of a Triplet Excited State”, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 6564-6571.
