Luca Scorrano#
| Membership Number: | 4907 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.vimm.it/scientific-board/luca-scorrano |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Scientific Director, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padua, Italy
- 2013 - present Chiara Fama Full Professor of Biochemistry (equivalent to Endowed Chair), Dept. of Biology, University of Padua, Italy
- 2007 - 2013 Full Professor, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
- 2007 - 2017 Senior Telethon Scientist, Dulbecco-Telethon Institute, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padua, Italy
- 2003 - 2007 Assistant Telethon Scientist, Dulbecco-Telethon Institute, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padua, Italy
- 2000 - 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow (mentor: Dr. S.J. Korsmeyer) Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
- 1996 - 2000 Doctoral Research Fellow (mentor: Dr. P. Bernardi) Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua Italy
- 1998 Medical Lieutenant, Head of Health Service (Medicine, Compulsory Military Service), Padova Military Heliport, Italy
- 1996 - 1997 Internship (Medicine) University Hospital, Padova, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Interorganellar contact sites
- Apoptosis
- Ca2+ signaling
- Mitochondria
- Autophagy
- Bioenergetics
- Fusion-fission
- Bcl-2 family members
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Chair, Gordon Research Conference "Mitochondria and Chloroplasts" Il Ciocco (Italy)
- 2013 ESCI Award for Excellence in Basic/Translational Research, European Society for Clinical Investigation
- 2012 Elected Member, EMBO
- 2012 Chair, Keystone Symposium “Mitochondrial Dynamics and Physiology” Banff (Canada)
- 2011 “Chiara D’Onofrio” Prize, The D’Onofrio Foundation
- 2011 ERC Consolidator grant
- 2006 Eppendorf European Young Investigator Award, Eppendorf-Nature
- 2006 Elected EMBO Young Investigator
- 2005 “Angelo Minich” Prize for Medicine, Venetian Institute of Science, Letter and Arts
- 2004 Career Development Award, Human Frontier Science Program Organization
- 2003 “AICC-Onlus” Prize, Italian Association of Cell Culture (AICC)
- 2001 “G. Capozza” Prize, Italian Group of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes (GIBB)
- 2000 Long Term Fellowship, Human Frontier Science Program Organization
- 2000 Special Fellowship, Leukemia-Lymphoma Society of America (declined)
- 2000 Long Term Fellowship, EMBO (declined)
