Letizia Lanzetti - Curriculum Vitae#
Education and Scientific experience
- July 1995 Turin, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Torino, degree in Biological Sciences (110/110 cum laude)
- 1995 - 1997 Research fellow, Dept. of Medical Genetics, University of Torino, Research Topic: Isolation and genetic characterization of a new family of human genes: the endophilins
- 1997 - 2003 Fellow at the Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan. Research Topics: mechanisms of endocytosis of activated receptors and of actin cytoskeleton remodeling by small GTPases
- Visiting scientist in the laboratory of Prof. Marino Zerial at EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany), studies of biochemical properties of the small GTPase Rab5
- 2003 - 2008 Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Oncology, Division of Molecular Angiogenesis, Candiolo Cancer Institute. Research topic: role of endocytosis in the mechanisms of cell adhesion and motility
- 2008 - present Principal Investigator, Head of the Membrane Trafficking Laboratory, Candiolo Cancer Institute
- Winner of the AIRC START UP program. Research topics: role of endocytic proteins in cell division. Identification of novel mechanism of regulation of cell adhesion. Molecular mechanisms of metabolic reprogramming in breast cancer
- 2011 - 2022 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Torino
- 2022-present Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Torino
Owner of grants provided by the following agencies:
AIRC (Italian Association for Cancer Research), EU (Sixth Framework Programme, Specific Targeted Research Project under the program: "Signaling and Membrane Trafficking in Transformation and Differentiation"), AICR now Worldwide Cancer Research (Association for International Cancer Research, Edinburgh, UK). Italian Ministry of Health, Intramural grant from Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro
Editor: Biology Direct
Total peer reviewed papers 40
H-index Scopus 29
Citations 3852
