Luigi Lay | Lecturer -Department of Chemistry
University of MILAN

Luigi Lay graduated in Chemistry in 1990 and was awarded a PhD in Chemical Sciences in 1994 at the University of Milan, working on the synthesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide fragments. After an EU-funded post-doctoral fellowship in the research group of Prof. Richard R. Schmidt at the University of Konstanz (Germany), Luigi Lay moved back to Milan in 1996 as a Researcher in Organic Chemistry at CNR. In 2000 he became Researcher in Organic Chemistry at the University of Milan, then Associate Professor in 2010 and Full Professor since 2017.
Luigi Lay has been Principal Investigator of numerous national (Italian Ministry of Research, Fondazione CARIPLO) and international (European Commission) projects financed according to competitive calls for applications. He has been Chair of the COST Action “Innovation with Glycans: new frontiers from synthesis to new biological targets – INNOGLY”, and he is currently Coordinator of the HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “ACINETWORK”.
The research activity of Luigi Lay is focused on carbohydrate chemistry and the use of synthetic glycans to investigate their biological properties. In particular, most of his current scientific activity is addressed to the synthesis of oligosaccharides/glycoconjugates endowed with immunological activity for the development of semisynthetic glycoconjugate vaccines.
Luigi Lay is an active member of the Italian Chemical Society and American Chemical Society, and in 2016 he was awarded the Research Prize “Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences” by the Organic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society. Luigi Lay is currently the Coordinator of the Interdivisional Group on Carbohydrate Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society.