Gerry Melino#
Membership Number: | 2889 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2010 |
Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Homepage(s): | https://farmacia.uniroma2.it/CV/Cv-Gerry-Melino-Eng.pdf |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2008 Director of the Department of Experimentale Medicine and Surgery & Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'
- Since 2002 Programme Grant, Medical Research Council (MRC), Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1998 to 2007 Full Professor of Biochemistry (1998-1999) and Molecular Biology (1999-2007), Experimental Medicine & Biochemistry Dept. University of Rome Tor Vergata
- 2012 Jan to Dec Older of the FWO Odysseus grant, Cell Metabolism Laboratory, at the VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- 2011 to 2015 Supervisor of the Megagrant at the “Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology”, Russia, to establish a molecular pharmacology research team at the Mendeleev Institute.
- 2010 Jan to Dec Scientific Director, European Brain Research Institute, Rita Levi-Montalcini Foundation, Rome
- 1994 to 1998 Full Professor of Biochemistry (1991-1998), Biology Faculty, University of L'Aquila
- 1987 to 1994 Research Fellow in Biochemistry (1987-1994), Experimental Medicine & Biochemistry Dept., University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Locum Professor of Biochemistry (1991-1994), Biology Faculty, University of L'Aquila
- 1979 to 1986 Chemical Pathology Dept., Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Programmed cell death
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Feltrinelli Prize by Academia Lincei (founded 1602) presented by the President of Italy
- 2010 Antonini Prize, Italian Society of Biochemistry
- 2011 Morgagni Medal. Morgagnane Lectures 250th Anniversary. University of Padua
- 2012 Doctor Science Honorary Degree, Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology
- 2013 Chancellor’s Award on Neuroscience. Louisiana State University, USA
- 2014 Honorary Professor & Advisory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, China
- 2015 Senate Medal. Cancer Centre. Hawaii State, USA
- 2016 Distinguished Career Award, European University of Cyprus