Gilberto Fisone - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 1982: B.Sc University of Pavia, Italy
- 1990: Ph.D. Stockholm University
- 1991-94: Postdoctoral fellow, Lab. of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (Prof. Paul Greengard), The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Current Position
Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet
Previous positions
- 2006 - present Professor of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- 2000 - 2006 Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- 1996 - 2005 Adjunct Professor-The Rockefeller University, New York
- 1995 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- 1994 - 1995 Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
- 1990 - 1991 Junior Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Stockholm University
- 1982 - 1986 Research Assistant “Mario Negri” Inst. for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
Commissions of trust
- 2022 Secretary, International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS)
- 2020 - present Board of the Swedish Basal Ganglia Society (SWEBAGS)
- 2018 - present Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska institutet
- 2018 - present Scientific Director, Animal Behavior Core Facility, Karolinska Institutet
- 2018 - present Scientific Advisory Board of the Neuroscience Institute Cavaliere Ottolenghi, Turin, Italy
- 2017 - 2018 Board for Postgraduate Education, Karolinska Institutet
- 2016 - 2017 Advisory Board of the Department of Comparative Medicine at Karolinska Institutet
- 2014 - present International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) Subcommittee on Dopamine Receptors
- 2012 - 2017 Director of Studies - Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
- 2010 - present Scientific Board - Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden)
- 2008 - 2018 Coordinator - Karolinska Institutet Neuroscience Network
- 1999 - 2001 Board Member - Centrum för Allergiforskning (Karolinska Institutet)
- 1997 - 2006 Program Director - National Network in Neuroscience (supported by the Swedish Strategic Foundation)
Academic/Invited Editor
PLoS One; Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience & Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Expert reviewer (selected):
ERC (Consolidator Grants), Welcome Trust, French National Research Council (ANR), Swedish National Research Council (VR), Parkinson’s Disease Society (UK), Polish and Singapore Research Councils, EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND), Research Foundation Flanders-Odysseus Brain Gain Program, ATIP-Avenir (INSERM, France)
Invited Speaker/Symposium Organizer (selected from 2015)
- 2015 Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Center, University of Oxford, UK
- 2015 Mediterranean Neuroscience Society - Cagliari (Italy)
- 2016 University of Cardiff (UK)
- 2017 Mediterranean Neuroscience Society - Malta
- 2017 BrainMatTrain (EU Research Summer School), Galway, Ireland
- 2018 IBRO Meeting ”Advances in Translational Neuroscience”, University of Saõ Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
- 2019 International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS), Biarritz, France
- 2019 Mediterranean Neuroscience Society – Marrakech (Morocco)
- 2020 Italian Society for Neuroscience
- 2021 StratNeuro, Stockholm
Current funded research projects (selected)
- 2020 - 2024 Comorbidity mechanisms of anxiety and Parkinson’s disease - EU Horizon2020 Programme
- 2021 - 2023 Phage-based targeted neural stimulation in neurodegenerative diseases - EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Diseases
- 2020 - 2023 Co-morbidities in Parkinson’s disease: modeling and identification of targets for therapy - Swedish Research Council
- 2019 - 2024 Brainstem start and stop locomotor circuits: a target for stimulation-based therapies for the treatment of motor disabilities in Parkinson’s disease - Lundbeck Foundation (Copenhagen)
- 2019 - 2021 Sleep disruption and obsessive-compulsive disorders in Parkinson’s disease - Swedish Brain Foundation
Doctoral supervision
Main supervisor for 7 completed and 1 current Ph.D. Supervised +20 Master students.
