Meet the team! – Milo Malanga
Some chemists are drawn to elegant molecules but Milo Malanga PhD
is drawn to the difficult ones and cyclodextrins, with all their complexity, are exactly the kind of puzzle he enjoys.
This preference for hard problems also shapes how he sees the work happening around him at CarboHyde. When asked which project he is most proud of, his answer is unexpected, because it is one he barely worked on himself.
“I am most proud of a French partners project, although I have done almost nothing about it. In my opinion, it is the most difficult project at CarboHyde, but it is also the best designed and best executed one – honestly, I could never do a project like this myself.”
There is a rare kind of pride in that answer – the kind that recognizes great work in others and acknowledges the standard a team can reach together.
If Milo could solve just one unanswered question in cyclodextrin chemistry tomorrow, he would not hesitate.
“I would focus on crossing the blood-brain barrier, and on achieving organ-specific tropism through cyclodextrin structure-activity relationships – two challenges that could reshape how active ingredients reach the places they truly need to go.”
The hardest problems rarely come with quick answers, but they are the ones worth showing up for, day after day.:)
