Maria Duca

• Associate Editor for RSC Medicinal Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• Chair of the Chemical Biology Initiative for the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry
• Chair of the Scientific Committee of the French Medicinal Chemistry Society (SCT)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ChemMedChem (Wiley)
• Member of the Communication Committee of the International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS)

• Alexandre Joël Award from Fondation ARC (2004)
• Michel Delalande Award from the French Pharmacy Academy (2007)

Di Giorgio A., Duca M.* New Chemical Modalities Enabling Specific RNA Targeting and Degradation: Application to SARS-CoV-2 RNA. ACS Cent. Sci. 2020 6, 1647

Joly J.P., Gaysinski M., Zara L., Duca M.*, Benhida, R. Functionalized C-nucleosides as remarkable RNA binders: targeting of prokaryotic ribosomal A-site RNA. Chem. Commun. 2019 27, 10432

Staedel, C., Tran, T.P.A., Giraud, J., Darfeuille, F., Di Giorgio, A., Tourasse, N.J., Salin, F., Uriac, P., Duca, M.* Modulation of oncogenic miRNA biogenesis using functionalized polyamines. Scientific Reports 2018 8, 1667

Vo D.D., Staedel C., Zehnacker L., Benhida R., Darfeuille F., Duca M.* Targeting the production of oncogenic microRNAs with multimodal synthetic small molecules. ACS Chem. Biol. 2014 9, 711.

Duca, M., Trindle, C.O., Hecht, S.M. Structural basis for the exceptional stability of bisaminoacylated nucleotides and transfer RNAs. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 11368.