Mauro Piacentini#
| Membership Number: | 5375 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://bio.uniroma2.it/mauro-piacentini |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - present Full Professor , Department of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
- 1998 - present Director of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Electron Microscopy at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS "Lazzaro Spallanzani", Rome, Italy
- 2018 - present President, National Research Committee of Italian Ministry of Health, Italy
- 2018 - present Director, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia
- 2013 - present Board of Directors, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
- 1998 - present Basic Research Director, National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS “Lazzaro Spallanzani” Rome, Italy
- 2013 - 2017 Visiting Professor, Federal University of San Paolo, Brazil
- 1998 - 2000 Associate Professor, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy
- 1984 - 1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, NIDR, NIH Bethesda, MD, USA
- 1984 - 1998 Assistant Professor, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
- 1977 - 1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Physiology and molecular mechanisms of cell death
- The role of cell death in pathophysiology of various disorders
- The role of cell death in response of tumors to chemotherapy
- Mechanisms of infectious diseases with particular regard to HIV
- Transglutaminase type 2 and its function in physiology and disease
- Cell biology and biochemistry of apoptosis and autophagy
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - 2021 Winner, Mega Grant, Russia
- 2016 2010 and 2001. Invited Speaker on the Nobel Conferences "Cell Cycle and Cell Death in Disease"
- 2006 Winner of the Europen Community "Descartes Award"
- 2016 Keynote speaker, Gordon Conference
- 2015, Highly cited cell biologists in Europe (2007-2013) (http://www.labtimes.org/labtimes/ranking/2015_05/index2.lasso
)
- 2013 International Cell Death Society, Career Award, USA
- 2012 The European Cell Death Organization. Prize for an important contribution to the ECDO
- 2012 Academia Medica Romana, Member
- 2010 Gordon Conference Elected Chair, USA
- 2007 JSPS Award, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
- 2007 Keynote speaker, 7th International Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical Society, Slovenia
- 2006 Rene Descartes Award, European Commission, Europe
- 2005 Keynote speaker, International Immunology and Reumathology Meeting, Taiwan
- 1999 - 2005 Italian Representant EU Cost Action 844, Belgium
- 1995 ABCD Price Italian Society for Cell Biology, Italy
