Michela Matteoli#
| Membership Number: | 3270 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Full Professor of Pharmacology, Dept of Medical Pharmacology, University of Milano
- 2010 - present Member of the Board of Directors, Center of Excellence of Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Milano
- 2009 - present Member of the Board of Directors, PhD School in Pharmacology
- 2008 - present Director of the CNS Platform, Filarete Foundation Business Accelerator
- 2008 - present Vice-director, Dept of Medical Pharmacology, University of Milano
- 2007 - present Co-founder and President of NeuroZone srl
- 2002 - 2011 Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Dept of Medical Pharmacology, University of Milano
- 1997 - 2002 First Researcher - National Research Council- Center of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Milano
- 1991 - 1997 Researcher - National Research Council, Center of Cytopharmacology, Milano.
- 1989 - 1991 Postdoctoral fellow at the Yale University School of Medicine - Dept. of Cell Biology
- 1988 - 1991 Researcher - CNR Istituto Fisiologia Centri Nervosi - Milano (on leave of absence from June 1989 to June 1991)
Fields of Scholarship
- Excitatory/inhibitory balance and plasticity in psychiatric diseases
- Mechanisms of synaptogenesis in CNS
- Astrocyte-neuron communication in health and disease
- Synaptic protein networks in psychiatric diseases
- Role of astrocytes and microglia in neurodegenerative diseases
- Secretory mechanisms in astrocytes
Honours and Awards
- 2011 International Prize "Women&Technologies 2008-2015", First Prize as Nano WomenTech
- 2009 designated in the European Network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors (EC Enterprise and Industry Directorate)
- 2008 First ranked, Provincia di Milano “Creative and Innovative enterprises ” ranked 1st
- 2002 - 2006 Elected Representative in the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Neuroscience
- 1989 International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) - MacArthur travel fellowship
- 1989 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) - long term fellowship
