!!!Fabio Benfenati
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__Present and Previous Positions__
* 2015 - present Research Director, Center of Synaptic Neuroscience and Technology, The Italian Institute of Technology, Genova (Italy)
* 2006 - 2015 Founder and Research Director, Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, The Italian Institute of Technology, Genova (Italy)
* 2000 - present Full Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Genova, School of Medicine (Italy)
* 1992 - 1999 Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Roma II, School of Medicine (Italy)
* 1990 - present Member of the Adjunct Faculty, The Rockefeller University, New York (USA)
* 1986 - 1989 Fogarty Fellow & Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York (USA) directed by Prof Paul Greengard (Nobel Laureate in 2000)
* 1984 - 1992 Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of Modena, School of Medicine (Italy)
* 1983 - 1984 Post-doctoral fellow at the Dept of Histology and Neurobiology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden) in Kjell Fuxe’s and Thomas Hokfelt’s laboratories
* 1980 - 1983 "Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei" fellow at the "Mario Negri" Institute for Pharmacological Research (Milano, Italy)
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
* 1979 "Thesis Prize" and thesis publication by the University of Bologna
* 1980 Prize for Neurobiology, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
* 1981 - 1982 “Anna Villa Rusconi” Foundation Fellowship
* 1986 - 1987 Fogarty International Center Fellowship from the US Public Health Service 1988: “Italian Society for Neuroscience” Prize for young neuroscientists
* 1992/96 Board Member of the Italian Society for Neuroscience
* 1997 Fullbright Advanced Research and University Lecturing Award
* 2001 Promoter and Laudatio lecturer for the Honorary Degree in Medicine awarded to professor Paul Greengard, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 
* 2003 - 2005 President, Italian Society for Neuroscience
* 2004 - 2006 Board Member of the Italian Federation for Life Sciences (FISV) 
* 2005 - 2008 Vice-President, National Institute for Neuroscience, Italy
* 2008 - 2011 Chairman, International Program Committee, 8th IBRO World Congress, Florence      (Italy)
* 2009 - 2011 President, The Italian Physiological Society
* 2009 - 2012 Member, CNRS Conseil Scientifique du Dept Sciences du Vivant, Paris (France)
* 2010 - 2016  Member, International Scientific Council of the European Brain Research Institute, Rome
* 2005 - present: Member, Scientific Committee of the International Genoa Science Festival
* 2012 Foreign Scientist Award, The Michael Stern Foundation for Parkinson's Disease, New York, USA
* 2012 - 2018  President, Italian Collegium of Physiologists
* 2012 - present President, Advisory Board of the Clinical Research Institute (IRCCS) of  Neurological Sciences, Bologna (Italy)
* 2012 Smart Cup and National Innovation Prize (PNI) for Life Sciences for the project "ON-IRIS, photovoltaic artificial retina"
* 2013 Opening lecture for the Academic Year 2012/13 at the University of Genova
* 2015 President of the “66th National Congress of the Italian Physiological Society" Genova, September 16-18, 2015
* 2015  Member of the Program Committee, Federation of the European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum, Copenhagen (Denmark), July 2-6, 2016
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Benfenati_Fabio/Highlight]
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