Anna Tramontano#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2692 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biocomputing.it/index.php/People/anna-tramontano |
Anna Tramontano passed away March 9, 2017.
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2001 Professor of Biochemistry, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
- 2004 - 2010 Director of the Bioinformatics Program, CRS4, Pula (CA)
- 1996 - 2001 Director of the Computational Biology and Chemistry Department at IRBM (Merck Research Laboratories in Pomezia, Rome) and Director of Information Technology and Research Information Systems at IRBM and Professor of Chimica Computazionale II at the University of Naples
- 1994/95 Director of Biocomputing Unit of IRBM
- 1990/93 Biocomputing Group Leader at IRBM and Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Milan
- 1988/90 Staff member of the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg (D) in the Biocomputing Programme.
- 1987 Research fellow at International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics in Naples
- 1985/86 Consultant for Biosym Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
- 1984/85 Post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the University of California, San Francisco (USA)
- 1981/84 Research fellow at the International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics in Naples
- 1980 Laurea in Physics, summa cum laude, at the University of Naples
Fields of Scholarship
- Genome functional annotation
- Protein structure Prediction
- Protein structure analysis
- Protein sequence analysis
- Protein design
- Antibody structure
- Viral proteins
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Member of the ERC Scientific Council
- 2010 Tartufari Prize
- 2008 KAUST Global Research Partnership award
- 2005 Premio Minerva per la ricerca scientifica
- 2002 Premio speciale della cultura per le Scienze Naturali della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- 2001 Marotta Prize - National Academy of Science
- 1993 EMBO member
- Accademia Medica Romana
- 2001 ISCB Board of directors
- 2002 - 2005 ISCB Vice president
- Chair of the steering committee of the European Conference on Computational Biology
- Societa' Italiana di Biochimica
- Societa' Italiana di Biofisica e Biologia Molecolare
- Societa' Italiana di Chimica
- Societa' Italiana di Bioinformatica
