Giuseppe Testa#
| Membership Number: | 6373 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://humantechnopole.it/en/people/giuseppe-testa/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9104-0918 |
| X: | @gtesta72 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Head of the Neurogenomics Research Center of the Human Technopole (Milan, Italy)
- 2018 - present Full Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Milan (Milan, Italy)
- 2014 - 2017 Adjunct faculty at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, (Baltimore, USA)
- 2006 - present Director of the High-Definition Disease Modelling Lab: Stem Cell and Organoid Epigenetics, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, (Milan, Italy)
- 2004 - 2006 MA in Health Care Ethics and Law, The University of Manchester (Manchester, UK)
- 2002 - 2005 Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the Dresden University of Technology (Dresden, Germany)
- 1997 - 2002 PhD student, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany)
Fields of Scholarship
- Stem cells epigenetics
- Cancer research
- Single cell multiomics
- Neurogenomics
- Genetic and environmental causes of chromatin dysregulation
- Thymomas
- Glioblastoma
- Ovarian cancer
- Stem cell and organoid-based patient-specific modelling
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Premio Anzalone for physicians and physician scientists
- 2003 Roche Prize for “Leading Bioscientists of the Next Decade"
- 1997 Prize "Luigi Manara" from the University of Perugia for the medical student with the best academic curriculum.
- 1997 National prize "Luigi Casati" from the "Accademia dei Lincei" for the best MD thesis defended during the year 1996
- 1995 Prize of the Foundation "Francesco Rebucci" for students and young graduates performing research in experimental oncology
