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Maria Duca

@mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social
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CNRS Research Director - Leader of Targeting of Nucleic Acids' Lab icn.univ-cotedazur.fr/tna - President of the French Medicinal Chemistry Society (www.sct-asso.fr) and Director of GDR RNA (gdr-rna.cnrs.fr)

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SCF PACA - Région SUD @pacascf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
👏 Félicitations à Maria Duca et Gaëlle Chouraqui, contributrices du n° spécial des Comptes-Rendus de l’Académie des sciences consacré aux femmes chimistes en France 2026. @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @scf-dco.bsky.social @cnrs.fr new.societechimiquedefrance.fr/sections_reg...
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Maria Duca et Gaëlle Chouraqui à l’honneur dans le numéro spécial "Femmes Chimistes en France 2026" - Société Chimique de France (SCF)
Le réseau Société Chimique de France Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur est heureux de mettre à l’honneur deux de ses membres, Maria Duca et Gaëlle Chouraqui, qui
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Maria Duca @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The last article of the team is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org Check it to see how #RNA could open the way to the discovery of new antibiotics, congratulations to all authors ! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @icn-cnrs.bsky.social @univcotedazur.bsky.social @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social #MyFirstChemSci
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Synthetic RNA ligands as activators of type I toxin–antitoxin systems: a novel antimicrobial strategy targeting Helicobacter pylori
Targeting RNAs with synthetic small molecules represents a privileged avenue for the discovery of new therapeutic approaches and offers the possibility to identify original targets escaping the classi...
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gsbardella.bsky.social @gsbardella.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Great talk by @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social at the 11th Novalix Conference about Biophysics in Drug Discovery. Maria presented a few of her group projects, talking on how to target RNA using synthetic small molecules and how to discover an characterize RNA binders. Brilliant!
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Nature @nature.com · 14/05/2025
Forty years ago this month, scientists reported that human activities had punctured Earth’s protective ozone layer. What happened next offers a masterclass in international science-diplomacy go.nature.com/43607zu
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Do look up: how science and international cooperation closed the ozone hole
Forty years ago this month, scientists reported that human activities had punctured Earth’s protective ozone layer. What happened next offers a masterclass in international science-diplomacy.
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Maria Duca @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We recently developed a comprehensive set of assays to identify small-molecule binders for MALAT1 lncRNA, look at the results we obtained recently published in ACS Chemical Biology @pubs.acs.org great collaboration with Sanofi #RNA #RNAtargeting #chembio #medchem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Development of Comprehensive Screening and Assessment Assays for Small-Molecule Ligands of MALAT1 lncRNA
RNA targeting represents an original and promising approach to the discovery of new therapeutic tools against numerous diseases. The majority of intracellular RNAs are noncoding RNAs that play key reg...
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Maria Duca @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Would you like to know more about how streptomycin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic, affects tumor-initiating cells ? Have a look to our recent paper out on @cp-cellchembiol.bsky.social ! @icn-cnrs.bsky.social @univcotedazur.bsky.social @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social #chembio #aminoglycosides
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Véronique Michelet @vmichelet06.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We were granted and happy to welcome Dr David Leboeuf from LIMA Strasbourg and Pr Isabelle Gillaizeau from Orleans for great conferences ! 👍😊🤩 HFIP magic solvent and metal-catalyzed heterocycles synthesis on the program !! 🥰🥰🥰 @icn-cnrs.bsky.social @univcotedazur.bsky.social
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Maria Duca @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I am really honored by this recognition and thankful to @pacascf.bsky.social as well as to my team and the students and postdocs who worked with me over the years! @cnrs.fr @univcotedazur.bsky.social #RNAinFrance #RNA
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FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · 19/12/2024
Est-ce que les DU vont démissionner en masse pour protester contre cette n-ieme diminution de pouvoir de l’échelon local aux dépens des choix politiques nationaux ?
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
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Maria Duca @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Do not miss the opportunity to apply for the young medicinal chemist and chemical biologist awards in academia and industry from the Société de Chimie Thérapeutique #SCT Apply here www.sct-asso.fr/ymc-academia... or www.sct-asso.fr/ymc-industry... for these 2500€ awards #chembio #medchem
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Maria Duca @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Extremely proud of Jihed Azzouz who recently obtained his PhD in our team working on #RNA targeting using small molecules and receiving the Excellence Award from Université Côte d'Azur, congratulations Jihed! #RNAtargeting #medchem #chembio
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Maria Duca @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What a pleasure to be in Marburg and meet with @olallalab.bsky.social great team! Thank you for everything and thanks to MiNu graduate school!
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Maria Duca @mariaduca-cnrs.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
What better than a new paper as a first post in bluesky: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... I have been lucky to collaborate with Laurent Micouin and Erica Benedetti on new azaspirocycles as original RNA binders #RNA #RNAtargeting #medchem #chembio
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Design and Evaluation of Azaspirocycles as RNA binders
This study describes efficient synthetic routes for the preparation of novel azaspirocycles. The resulting molecules exhibit unique three-dimensional structures with potential applications in drug di...
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