!!Piergiorgio Strata - Curriculum vitae
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__1. School Training__
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*Date and place of birth: February 5, 1935, Albenga (Italy)
*He entered the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pisa on November 1954. At the same time, he won, in a national competition, one of the two positions as a student in the "Medical College" of the "Scuola Normale Superiore" of Pisa, now called Collegio S. Anna. This position was maintained up to the MD degree.
*MD degree on 1960 with 110/110 cum laude. The thesis has been recognized as "worth of publication". During these 6 academic years he worked in the Institute of Human Physiology of the University directed by Prof. G. Moruzzi
*After the MD degree he has followed a two years course of Biophysics "Libera Docenza" (equivalent to PhD) in Human Physiology in 1967
*Postdoc with Sir John Eccles in 1965-67 in Canberra and Chicago
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__2. Positions held after the MD degree__
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*1960-64: Honorary Assistant Professor in Human Physiology, University of Pisa
*1960-62: Fellowships from Ministry of Education and National Research Council (Pisa)
*1962-64: Research Member of the National Research Council (Pisa)
*1964-67: Assistant Professor in Human Physiology, University of Pisa
*1967-75: Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Pisa
*1975-95 Professor of Human Physiology, University of Turin
*1996-: Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Turin
*1965-66: Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Department of Physiology (Canberra)
*1966-67: Assistant Member of the Institute for Biomedical Research of the A.M.A. (Chicago)
*1967-72: Honorary Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University (Chicago)
*1978-79: Visiting Member of the Max Planck Institute für Hirnforschung (Frankfurt) (5 months)
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__3. Awards__
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*Lepetit Prize for the MD thesis in 1960
*Prize of the Italian Society of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology in 1963
*Golgi Prize 1975 assigned by "Accademia dei Lincei" to the italian physiologist, who gave the best contribution to neurophysiology between 1965-75
*Herlitzka Prize (1994)
*Medal of the Italian National Academy of Science called of XL (1999)
*Garavoglia International Prize for Neurology (2001)
*IBRO Award for the contribution to the development of the world neuroscience (2003)
*Feltrinelli Price (2004)
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__4. Service Positions in Scientific Societies__
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*Council Member of the European Neuroscience Association (1980-84)
*Council Member of the Italian Physiological Society (1983-85)
*Council Member of the Italian Neuroscience Society (1983-86)
*President Elect of the Italian Neuroscience Society (1986-88)
*President of the Italian Neuroscience Society (1988-90)
*Council Member of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (1988-89 and 1996-98)
*Vice President of the European Neuroscience Association (1988-92)
*Governing Council Member of International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) (1986-92)
*Executive Committee Member and Treasurer of IBRO (1991-2003)
*Chairman of IBRO Publication Committee (from 2003)
*Executive Committee of European Dana Alliance for Brain (from 1997)
*President of the Italian Neuroscience Institute
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__5. Grant Review and Prize Committees__
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*Research Grants of the Human Frontiers Science Program (1989-91)
*Research Grants of the targeted Project on Aging of Italian CNR (1989-94)
*Scientific Committee and Research Grants of Italian Telethon (1990-99)
*President of the targeted Project on Aging of the Italian CNR (1994-99)
*Committee of the Italian National Research Council for Biology and Medicine (1994-99)
*European Cortina-Ulisse Prize (1991)
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__6. Organization of international scientific Meetings__
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#"The olivocerebellar system in motor control", Satellite Symposium of the 2nd World Congress of IBRO (Turin, August 8-12, 1987)
#"Magnesium and excitable membranes", invited symposium of the international Symposium of the Society of Gynecological Endocrinology" (Crans Montana, March 6-12, 1988)
#12th Meeting of the European Neuroscience Association (Turin, September 3-7, 1989)
#21st Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (Turin, September 6-8, 1989)
#"Magnesium and excitable membranes", Satellite Symposium of the 12th Meeting of the European Neuroscience Association (Turin, September 3, 1989)
#"Cerebellum, from cellular activity to system function", invited symposium of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (Helsinki, July 9-14, 1989)
#"Neural basis of learning and memory". Symposium of the Human Frontier Science Program (Rome, May 25, 1990)
#"The Cerebellum: from structure to control", Satellite Symposium of the European Neuroscience Association meeting (Rotterdam, August 31-September 3, 1995)
#"Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain repair" (Turin, May 29-30, 1998)
#"Molecular mechanisms of developmental and adult plasticity in the cerebellum" (Turin, May 27-29, 1999)
#Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain repair" (Turin, October 11-14, 2000)
#Human Frontier Science Program meeting (Turin, June 17-20, 2001)
#Brain plasticity and learning-based therapy (Turin July 6-8, 2003)
#Cerebellum: cognition and emotion, 35th Annual General Meeting of EBBS, (Barcellona, September 17-20, 2003)
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__7. Editorial activity__
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*Co-editor of Exp. Brain Res. (1972-1978)
*Director Symposia and Workshops Program of IBRO (1988-1995)
*Publication Committee of the IBRO (1991-2003)
*Chair of IBRO Publication Committee (from 2003)
*Editorial board of: Europ J Neurosci, Funct Neurol, Neurol Sci, Neuroscience, News Physiol Sci (Associate Editor)
*Guest referee of: Brain Res, Behav Brain Res, Develop Brain Res, Exp Brain Res, J Neurophysiol, J Neurosci, Mol Brain Res, Neurosci Lett, Vision Res, Cerebellum.
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__8. Governmental service positions__
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*Advisory Committee of the Minister of the University and of the Scientific Research and Technology for the *"Decade of the Brain" (1991-92)
*National Committee of the Ministry for the organization of a mobile exhibition on the scientific aspects of drug addiction (1991-92)
*Board of Trustees of the Human Frontier Science Program (since 1993)
*Advisory Committee of the Health Minister for the pathologies of the nervous system (1995)
*Delegate of the Minister to the G7 Conference at the White House (Washington) to discuss the future of the Human Frontier Science Program (May 1997)
*Delegate of the Government to the European Program COST-Neuroscience (since 1998)
*Delegate of the Minister in the Management Committee of the Program 'Biomedicine and Health' at the European Community (1998-99)
*Expert Delegate of the Minister in the Program Committe of the Fifth Frame Quality of Life Program at the European Community (1999-2002)
*Coordinator of a Neuroscience National Committee nominated my the Minister of the University on April 2000, to elaborate a program for Neuroscience in Italy.
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__9. Academies__
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*Academia Europaea
*Accademia delle Scienze, Turin
*Accademia di Medicina, Turin
*Accademia Romana di Scienze Mediche e Biologiche, Rome
*Accademia degli Illuminati, Rome