Fiorenzo Conti#
| Membership Number: | 5939 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://fiorenzocontigroup.it |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5853-1566 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1994 - present Full Professor (Physiology), University of Ancona (Italy)
- 2012 - present Director, Center for Neurobiology of Aging, Natl Inst Health & Science on Aging (INRCA IRCCS), Ancona (Italy)
- 2020 - present President of the Italian Physiological Society
- 2016 - 2017 President of the Italian Neuroscience Society
- 2010 - 2018 Lecturer on Physiology; School of Medicine, Vita-Salute University (HSR), Milano (Italy)
- 1998 Visiting Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, UNC Chapel Hill (NC)
- 1992 Visiting Professor, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, UCLA Los Angeles (CA)
- 1986 -1992 Researcher, University of Ancona (Italy)
Fields of Scholarship
- Synaptic heterogeneity
- Transporter dysfunction in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases
- GABA transporter distribution and functional role in cerebral cortex
- Localization and function of GLT-1 in cerebral cortex
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Civic Merit Award, Municipality of Ancona (Civica benemerenza del Comune di Ancona), (for scientific outreach)
- 2014 Member, Accademia Marchigiana di Scienze, Lettere e Arti
- 2013 Member, Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani
- 1990 Italian Society of Physiology (SIF) Prize for young investigators in physiology
- 1990 Accademia Medico-Chirurgica del Piceno Prize for young investigators in biomedical sciences
