Francesco Blasi#
| Membership Number: | 1405 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - 2009 Founder and Deputy scientific director, of IFOM
- 1998 Chairman, Department of Cell Biology and Functional Genetics. Dean, Office of Graduate Studies in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Milano
- Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, Professor of Molecular Biology in the new HSR Private University and coordinator of the PhD program in Molecular and Cellular Biology
- 1992 Professor of Genetics at the University of Milan and director of the Molecular Genetics Unit in the newly built H.S. Raffaele (HSR)
- 1987 - 1992 Professor of Molecular Biology at the Mikrobiologisk Institut of the University of Copenhagen, and Director of the Center of Molecular Cell Biology
- 1980 Director of the CNR Institute of Genetics and Biophysics in Naples
- 1980 Professor of Human Genetics at the second Faculty of Medicine of the University of Naples
- 1968 Professor of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Università Vita- Salute H.S. Raffaele, Milano
- 1961 Ph.D (Libera Docenza) summa cum laude in General Pathology
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell Migration, Cell Proliferation and Signaling
- Prep1 transcription factor in mammalian development and regulation of Hox activity
- Transcriptional regulation of urokinase (uPA) gene expression
Honours and Awards
- Member of E.M.B.O. (Europ. Mol. Biol. Organ.)
- Member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
- Member of Academia Europea
- Fogarty Scholar in Residence Award, N.I.H. USA
- 19993 Dr. Honoris Causa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen (1993)
- 1994 Prize, International Society of Fibrinolysis and Thrombolysis (1994)
