Elena Cattaneo - Curriculum Vitae#

Born in Milan, Italy, in 1962. Married. Two children.

• Head of the “Laboratory of stem cell biology and pharmacology of neurodegenerative diseases” (http://www.cattaneolab.it).
  
• Director of Unistem (http://www.unistem.it).
  
• Full Professor of Pharmacology, University of Milan

Research

Active in research on the mechanisms underlying Huntington's Disease (HD). The ultimate goal of her lab is to identify cells, molecules and pathways that are suitable for therapeutic intervention and new reagents for drug screening in HD.

Funding (last 5 years)

• 2004-2008 PI and Networking Director in Eurostemcell (www.eurostemcell.org; Integrated Project, EU, FP6)
  
• 2006-2010 PI in Estools (http://www.estools.org, Integrated Project, EU, FP6)
  
• 2004-2009 PI in NeuroNE (http://neurone.nuxit.net, NoE, EU, FP6)
  
• 2007-2009 PI in STEM-HD (www.stem-hd.eu, Strep, EU, FP6)
  
• 2005-2009 Coordinator of an international coalition for the study of Huntingtin's function (HD Society of America, New York; Huntingtin Function Team)
  
• 2004-2006 Coordinator of a project on the identification of biomarkers for HD (HighQ Foundation -U.S.A.)
  
• 2006-2009 Grant from Telethon (Italy) to study Huntingtin’s function
  
• 2007-2009 Grant from Cariplo-Nobel for the project “A genetic toolkit for the analyses of neural stem cells”, Fondazione Cariplo, Italy
  
• 2007-2008 Grant from the HighQ Foundation (USA) to study the impact of a cholesterol dysfunction in HD
  
• 2009-2012 Coordinator of NeuroStemcell (www.neurostemcell.org EU,FP7)
  
• 2012-2014 PI in CHDI Differentiation Consortium (C.H.D.I., U.S.A.)
  

Invited presentations to peer reviewed internationally established conferences

• 2004 Presidential Lecturer, American Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
  
• 2007 Lecturer at the Keystone Symposia on Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration, USA
  
• 2008 Plenary Lecturer at the Federation for European Neuroscience (FENS) meeting, Geneve
  
• 2009 Plenary Lecturer at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), Barcelona
  
• 2009 Lecturer at the Rome Conference in honor of the 100 years of Prof. Rita Levi-Montalcini
  
• 2009 Lecturer at the World Congress on Huntington’s Disease, Vancouver
  
• 2010 Plenary Lecture, Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), Torino, Italy
  

She has given › than 350 lectures as invited speaker at meetings or at seminars, in various research institutions.