Curriculum
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-1356
National Scientific Habilitation: Full Professor in General Pathology and Immunology, Associate Professor in Applied Medical Technology and Applied Biology
Academic and Professional Appointments
2018- 2021 Adjunct Professor Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2014-2020 Principal Investigator Laboratory of Translational Immunology, I.R.C.C.S Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
2016-2020 Visiting Scientist Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2012-2014 Senior Scientist Emerging Immunotherapies, Immuno-Oncology, Merck-Serono, Darmstadt, Germany
2006-2011 Group Leader, Autoimmunity, INGM. Foundation, c/o I.R.C.C.S Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy
2005 Research Collaborator Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2003-2004 Researcher (Assegno di Ricerca), University of Ferrara, Italy
2000-2002 Senior Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
1997-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow Lymphocyte Activation Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Editorial Actvities
2021: Associate Editor: Frontiers in Immunology
2021- Associate Editor: Inflammation
Editorial Board Member: Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Bentham Science).
Guest Associate Editor:
2020- 2021: Frontiers in Immunology for the Research Topic “"The interplay between immune activation and cardiovascular disease during infection, autoimmunity and aging: the role of T cells"”.
2019-2020 Molecular Immunology for the Special Issues: The latest advances in CD8 T cell biology in health and disease”.
2018-2019 Frontiers in Immunology for the Research Topic “Immunology of psoriatic disease”.
Ad Hoc Grant Application Reviewer:
Italian Ministry of Health (2011)
Health Research Board-Ireland (HRB) (2014)
National Psoriasis Foundation USA (2015)
Swiss National Science Foundation (2016)
PMU Research Fund (PMU-FFF), funding program at Paracelsus, Medical
University, Salzburg, Austria (2018)
Versus Arthritis Foundation, UK (2019)
National Science Center, Poland (2019)
Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH)(2019)
NWO Talent Programme Veni – Health Research and Development
(ZonMw), The Netherlands 2020
Member of Grant Review Committee “PsA diagnostic test” National Psoriasis Foundation-USA 2019, 2021
Other Professional Activities
Principal Investigator of the Clinical Study “T-ART”, approved by the Ethical Committee San Raffaele Hospital, Milano on July 17th 2014 (closed June 2018) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03374527
Education
1993-1996 Ph.D. Program in “Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology”, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Italy
1989 Master Degree in Pharmacy, University of Ferrara, Italy
