Daniela Corda#
| Email: | d.corda 'at' ibp.cnr.it |
| Membership Number: | 3713 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Username: | dcorda |
| Elected: | 2014 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 President, National Research Council Research Area NA1, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples
- 2009 Director, Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
- 2004-2009 Director for Research & Development, "Mario Negri Sud" Institute, S. Maria Imbaro (Chieti), Italy
- 1996-2003 Head of the Department of Cell Biology and Oncology, “Mario Negri Sud" Institute, S. Maria Imbaro (Chieti), Italy
- 1988-2009 Head of the Laboratory of Cell Regulation, "Mario Negri Sud" Institute, S. Maria Imbaro (Chieti), Italy
- 1986-1988 Chief of the Research Unit on Cell Regulation, "Mario Negri" Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milano, Italy
- 1983-1986 Fogarty Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Metabolism, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
- 1979-1983 PhD Student, Department of Membrane Research, the Weizmann Institute of Science. Rehovot, Israel
- 1978-1979 Part-time Teaching Assistant in Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Italy
- 1973-1977 Student, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Perugia, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell biology: components and regulation of the fission machinery involved in membrane traffic
- CtBPs/BARS
- Post-traslational modifications: role of endogenous mono-ADP-ribosylation in cell regulation
- PARPs
- Lipid signalling: the glycerophosphoinositols as phosphoinositide metabolites involved in cell regulation
- Drug target identification: the concepts developed in the laboratory are exploited for the identification of novel targets for drug development
- Small molecules: synthetic glycerophosphoinositols developed for the treatment of inflammation and "disseminated intravascular coagulation" (DIC); see patents
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Qualified for the position of Full Professor in Biology by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR)
- 2013 - 2020: Italian Delegate for Horizon 2020 (ERC, Marie Slodowska-Curie Actions, Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)) and for the National Representative Board (NRB) of FLAG ERA
- 2008 - 2013: Member of the European Research Council (ERC) Evaluation Panel, Framework Programme 7, European Commission, Brussels
- 2012 Qualified for the position of Director of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Italian National Research Council (CNR)
- 2011 - 2014 Member of the Steering Committee of the BIO-IMAGINE Project, FP7-REGPOT-2010-1, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
- 2011 to date: Member of the Fellowship Scientific Committee of the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC)
- 2010 AIDDA (Association of Managers and BusinessWomen) prize for Women in Science
- 2009 to date: Member of the External Advisory Board of the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB), Madrid, Spain.
- 2009 to date FP7 GenSET project – member of the Science Leaders Panel
- 2009 Member of the Research Quality Review Panel, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- 2008 - 2010 Member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
- 2008 - 2010 Chair of the Working Group “Young Scientists’ Forum” of the Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
- 2007 - 2008 Member of the Expert group “Realising a single labour market for researchers” (ERA), Framework Programme 7, European Commission
- 2007 - 2008 Member of the External Advisory Group for the People Programme, Framework Programme 7, European Commission
- 2004 - 2007 Member of the External Advisory Group for the Human Resources and Mobility Programme, Framework Programme 6, European Commission
- 2004 - 2007 Member of the Advanced Courses Committee of the Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
- 2000 Founding member (and Chair until 2005) of the Career Development Committee (CDC) of the European Life Scientist Organization (ELSO)
- since 2000 Permanent Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1983 - 1986 Fogarty Fellowship, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
- 1979 - 1983 The graduated Feinberg School Fellowship, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
