19 January 1972

Naples, Italy

Italian

MD, University of Perugia Medical School

PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg

Group leader

3rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Stem Cell Research
San Francisco, 23-25 June

Invited speaker at the Workshop ‘Ethical aspects of stem cell repositories and data bases’
European Commission
Bruxelles, 17 February

Invited speaker the consensus conferences of the EUROSTEM project
‘Guidelines on human stem cell research’
Athens, 8-10 October

Co-organizer of the session ‘Socializing Stem Cells’ at the joint conference of the Society for the Social Study of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
Paris, 26-28 August

Selected participant at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on Stem Cells
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 29 July-11 August

Member of the Scientific Committee of Observa - Science in Society, an Italian research centre and observatory on the social integration of scientific development

Invited member of the Harvard University-John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government focus team "Reframing Rights: Constitutional Consequences of Biotechnological Change"
April

Co-organizer of the first European workshop on Science and Narratives
Embryos and plots: public lectures on science and narratives (Embrioni e trame: Lezioni aperte tra scienza e narrazione)
Holden School of creative writing and narrative studies
Turin, Italy
22-26 March

2003

Winner of the Branco Weiss Fellowship "Society in Science", awarded by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Society-in-Science initiative

Invited speaker at the Summer Workshop 2003 on Science and Social Responsability
The Hastings Center for Bioethics, Garrison, NY, 27-30 June

Invited speaker at the Fifth International Workshop on Advanced Genomics, Yokohama (Japan), 26-27 June 2003

Member of the European Federation of Biotechnology Task Group on Public Perception of Biotechnology

Scholarship of the European Union for the third European Society of Hematology (ESH) Euroconference on Animal Models of Human Diseases: Cancer and Age Related Diseases, Prague (Czech Republic), 16-18 May 2003

Invited speaker at the "Roche Symposium for Leading Bioscientists of the Next Decade", Basel (Switzerland), 19-22 March 2003
Award of the Symposium Prize for the most outstanding presentation

Training in the Technology transfer Office of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics-Dresden

Co-chairman and co-organizer of the Biotechnology session "Branching out: careers in biotechnology" at the European Life Sciences Organization (ELSO) 2002 meeting-Nice, France 29 June-3 July

Guest lecturer for the International Doctorate Programme at the University of Naples-Federico II. Lectures themes: "Mouse models of cancer and contemporary mouse genome engineering".

European Doctorate in Biotechnology awarded by the European Association for Higher Education in Biotechnology (HEduBT) for excellence of research in the Field of biotechnology

Founder and chairman of the forum on
"Science and Society" of the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

PhD from the EMBL PhD programme in conjunction with the Open University and the National Institute for Medical Research-England.

Grant from the European Commission to attend the conference "Stem Cells: Therapies for the Future?", organized by the European Commission and the scientists of the Life Sciences High Level Group.
Brussels, December 2001

PhD programme in molecular and cellular biology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL Heidelberg) in the laboratory of Dr. A. Francis Stewart. Research theme: Molecular characterization of the MLL and AF4 genes in leukemogenesis.

PhD thesis title: "Modelling leukemia in the mouse: novel strategies in genome engineering"

Italian State Medical Licensing Examination

Practical Internship in clinical Medicine at the University of Perugia Medical School

Graduation from the University of Perugia Medical School with the highest grade and honours (110/110 summa cum laude)

Internship for the Medical Doctor thesis work in the laboratory of molecular biology of the Section of Pharmacology, Chemotherapy and Toxicology of the Department of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Pharmacology at the University of Perugia, chaired by Prof. Carlo Riccardi.
Research theme: Molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid induced apoptosis in the immune system.

Medical Doctor thesis title: "Glucocorticoids and the expression of the complex TCR/CD3"

Summer studentship at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons-Department of Pathology in the laboratory of Prof. Riccardo Dalla-Favera. Research theme: Engineering of retroviral vectors for cancer gene therapy.

Summer studentship at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middlesex, UK in the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth F. Hounsell.

Research theme: autoimmunity in AIDS pathogenesis.

Acting classes at the Drama School of the University of Perugia

Medical school at the Medical faculty of the University of Perugia, Italy

Graduation from italian High School Liceo Classico Statale Umberto I-Naples with the highest grades and honours

Graduation from Francis W. Parker High School-Chicago with highest grades and honours

Scholarship of the American Field Service (AFS) to attend academic year 1988-89 at Francis W. Parker High School, Chicago USA

Regular schooling through primary, secondary and high school (Classical Gymnasium)