Mauro Piacentini#


Mauro Piacentini
Membership Number:5375
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Elected:2020
Main Country of Residence:ITALY
Homepage(s):http://bio.uniroma2.it/mauro-piacentini





Present and Previous Positions

  • 2000 - present Full Professor , Department of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
  • 1998 - present Director of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Electron Microscopy at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS "Lazzaro Spallanzani", Rome, Italy
  • 2018 - present President, National Research Committee of Italian Ministry of Health, Italy
  • 2018 - present Director, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia
  • 2013 - present Board of Directors, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
  • 1998 - present Basic Research Director, National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS “Lazzaro Spallanzani” Rome, Italy
  • 2013 - 2017 Visiting Professor, Federal University of San Paolo, Brazil
  • 1998 - 2000 Associate Professor, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy
  • 1984 - 1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, NIDR, NIH Bethesda, MD, USA
  • 1984 - 1998 Assistant Professor, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
  • 1977 - 1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

Fields of Scholarship
  • Physiology and molecular mechanisms of cell death
  • The role of cell death in pathophysiology of various disorders
  • The role of cell death in response of tumors to chemotherapy
  • Mechanisms of infectious diseases with particular regard to HIV
  • Transglutaminase type 2 and its function in physiology and disease
  • Cell biology and biochemistry of apoptosis and autophagy

Honours and Awards
  • 2018 - 2021 Winner, Mega Grant, Russia
  • 2016 2010 and 2001. Invited Speaker on the Nobel Conferences "Cell Cycle and Cell Death in Disease"
  • 2006 Winner of the Europen Community "Descartes Award"
  • 2016 Keynote speaker, Gordon Conference
  • 2015, Highly cited cell biologists in Europe (2007-2013) (http://www.labtimes.org/labtimes/ranking/2015_05/index2.lasso)
  • 2013 International Cell Death Society, Career Award, USA
  • 2012 The European Cell Death Organization. Prize for an important contribution to the ECDO
  • 2012 Academia Medica Romana, Member
  • 2010 Gordon Conference Elected Chair, USA
  • 2007 JSPS Award, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
  • 2007 Keynote speaker, 7th International Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical Society, Slovenia
  • 2006 Rene Descartes Award, European Commission, Europe
  • 2005 Keynote speaker, International Immunology and Reumathology Meeting, Taiwan
  • 1999 - 2005 Italian Representant EU Cost Action 844, Belgium
  • 1995 ABCD Price Italian Society for Cell Biology, Italy

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