Fabrizio Chiti (born in Florence, 7 July 1971) is an Italian biochemist noted for his work on Protein aggregation and amyloid.
[1] Chiti is a graduate in Biological Sciences of the University of Florence (Italy).
[2] He was appointed as an Associate (2002) and then Full Professor (2010) at the University of Florence in Biochemistry.
He also correlated the toxicities of abnormal protein oligomers with specific structural properties of them.
[5] His 2006 review with Chris Dobson on protein misfolding, amyloid formation and human disease,[6] later updated as a new report,[7] is a reference paper in the field of amyloid and received, as of October 2019, more than four thousands citations in scientific publications.