Graduating in chemistry from the University of Liège in 1984, Moreno Galleni, then began a PhD focusing on the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. He finished his thesis in 1989 and started his study on dust-mite proteins at ULg’s Protein Engineering Centre. Nominated 1st assistant in 1999, and professor in 2002, he is currently conducting research on dust-mite allergies, among other things, at the Biological Macromolecule Laboratory.

Selection of publications

ZERVOSEN A., SAEGERMAN C., ANTONIOTTI I., ROBERT B., RUTH N., COLLARd A., SCHYNTS F., GALLENI M., MERCURI P.S., Characterization of the cattle serum antibody responses against TEM b-lactamase and the nonimmunogenic Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (STaI), in FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol, 2008, Dec;54(3):319-29.

DUMEZ M.-E., TELLER N., MERCIER F., TANAKA T., VANDENBERGHE I., VANDENBRANDEN M., DEVREESE B., LUXEN A., FRERE J.-M., MATAGNE A., JACQUET A., GALLENI M. and HEVIGNE A., Activation mechanism of recombinant Der p 3 allergen zymogen ; contribution of cysteine protease Der p 1 and effect of propeptide glycosylation, in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol 283, n°45, pp. 30606-30617, november 7 2008.

RUTH N., QUNINTING B., MAINIL J., HALLET B., FRERE J.-M., HUYGEN K., GALLENI M., Creating hybrid proteins by insertion of exogenous peptides into permissive sites of a class A beta-lactamase, FEBS J., 2008, 275(20):5150-60. BEN ACHOUR N., MERCURI P.S., POWER P., BELHADJ C., BEN MOUSSA M., GALLENI M. and BELADJ O., First detection of CTX-M-28 in a Tunisian hospital from a cefotaxime-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain, in Pathol Biol (Paris), 2008..

LIENARD B.M., HÜTING R., LASSAUX P., GALLENI M., FRERE J.-M., SCHOFIELD C.J., Dynamic combinatorial mass spectrometry leads to metallo-beta-lactamase inhibitors, in J Med Chem., 2008, 51(3):684-8.