Francesco Di Virgilio - Curriculum Vitae#

POSITION TITLE: Professor of Clinical Pathology

EDUCATION: University of Padova (Italy). Medical Doctor (MD) July 19, 1979

A. Positions#

• 1984 - 1985: Research Assistant, Istituto di Patologia Generale,University of Padova, Italy
  
• 1985 - 1986: Visiting Fellow Scientist, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, USA.
  
• 1986 - 1988: Associate Professor of Molecular Pathology, Istituto di Patologia Generale, University of Padova, Italy
  
• 1988 - 1992: Associate Professor of General Pathology, Istituto di Patologia Generale, University of Padova, Italy.
  
• 1992 - 1994 Associate Professor of General Pathology, Istituto di Patologia Generale, University of Ferrara, Italy
  
• 1994 - 2009 Professor of General Pathology, Istituto di Patologia Generale, University of Ferrara, Italy.
  
• 2009 - current Professor of Clinical Pathology, Istituto di Patologia Generale, University of Ferrara, Italy
  
• 2016 - current Director of the PhD Program in Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine, University of Ferrara, Italy

Ad hoc reviewer and membership of evaluation Committees

Journals

1) The Journal of Immunology; 2) Science Translational Medicine; 3) The Journal of Neurochemistry; 4) Molecular Biology of the Cell; 5) British Journal of Pharmacology; 6) Inflammation; 7) Blood; 8) Nature Medicine; 9) EMBO Journal; 10) PLoS ONE; 11) Immunity; 12) The Journal of Experimental Medicine; 13) Cell Death & Differentiation; 14) Science; 15) FASEB J; 16) Cancer Research; Stem Cells; 17) Glia; 18) Nature Communications.

Agencies

1) Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (Suisse) ; 2) Commission of the European; ommunities. International Scientific Cooperation (EU); 3) Austrian Science Fund; 4) Wellcome Trust (UK); 5) Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Italia); 6) Agence nationale de la research (France); 7) Biotechnology and Biology Sciences Research Council (UK); 8) Alzheimer Society (UK); 9) National Science Center Poland; 10) European Research Council (ERC).

Editorial Boards

1. 2000 - 2005: British Journal of Pharmacology
   
2. 2001 - current: Inflammation
   
3. 2001 - 2011: Autonomic Neuroscience: basic and clinical
   
4. 2004 - current: Purinergic Signalling (Associate Editor)
   
5. 2013 - current: American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology
   

B. Contribution to Science#

Francesco Di Virgilio has published 239 (Pubmed) articles, and he is an inventor in 4 International Patents.
Complete List of indexed Published Work (239 full papers) can be retrieved at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=di+virgilio+f