Cesare Montecucco#
| Membership Number: | 1903 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bio.unipd.it/toxin/montecuccoCV.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1986 Full Professor of General Pathology in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Padova
- 1983 - 1986 Associate Professor at the Institute of General Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Padua
- 1978 - 1983 Assistant Professor at the Institute of General Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Padua
- 1976 - 1977 Post-doctoral work supported by a long-term EMBO fellowship at the University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Discovery of activity and targets of the clostridial neurotoxins
- Co-discovery of the activity and substrate of the anthrax lethal factor
- Discovery of the mechanism of action of the vacuolating VacA cytotoxin
- Discovery of the neutrophil-activating protein (HP-NAP) of ''H. pylori''
Honours and Awards
- 1993 Prize of Harvard Medical School
- 1998 Prize of the Italian Consortium for the Biotechnologies
- 2000 Prize of the Deutsche Gesellschat f+r Hygiene und Microbiology
- 2003 Prize of the Masi Foundation for the Venetian Civilization
- 2004 Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine
- 2009 Redi Award of the International Society on Toxinology
- 2009 “Paul Harris” Prize of the Rotary Club
- 2011 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
