Nicola D'Amelio, Researcher: "We Want to Treat Cancer Using Yogurt as a Trojan Horse"

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The first thing Nicola D'Amelio makes clear when he begins this interview is that he is not a doctor or a training biologist. "I am a pure chemist," he comments kindly as a warning. But his career, after PhD in structural biology, has led him to study how to optimize the treatment of cancer. In 2011, he left a fixed position in the pharmaceutical industry to come with a research grant to the CNIO for a year. "I really liked the idea of working o…