Marina Bentivoglio#
| Membership Number: | 2664 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.fens.org/People/Bentivoglio-Marina |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Director of the Doctoral School of "Science Engineering Medicine" of the University of Verona
- 1994 - present Full Professor of Histology at the same University.
- 1987 - 1994 Associate Professor of Anatomy and Histology, Medical Faculty of the University of Verona, Italy
- 1984 (March-June), 1985 (Sept.-Dec.) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- 1980 - 1987 Research Associate, Institute of Neurology, Medical School of the Catholic, University of Rome, Italy
- 1978 - 1979 Visiting scientist (fellow of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) in the Department of Anatomy, Medical School of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 1978 Board in Neurology, University of Rome, Italy
- 1974 M.D. degree, with the mark of summa cum laude, Medical School of the Catholic University of Rome, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Organisation of diencephalic circuits and molecular pathogenesis of their functional disturbances
- History of neuroscience
- Neuroinflammatory signaling and neural-immune interactions in brain aging and in disease
Honours and Awards
- 1983 "Camillo Golgi" Prize of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for "studies on the anatomy of the nervous system"
- 1985 Prize of the Italian Society for Neuroscience (SINS)
- 1994 - 1996 Beaumont-Bonelli Fellowship (awarded by the Nobel Committee) to pursue collaborative studies with the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2007 - present Member of the Instituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere (Academy of Sciences of Lombardy)
- 2008 - present Member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
- 2009 - present Member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe)
