Alberto Mantovani#
| Membership Number: | 4613 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.humanitas-research.org/alberto-mantovani |
Present and Previous Positions
- Sept. 2005 to date: Scientific Director, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, and President, Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca
- 2014 Full Professor of General Pathology, School of Medicine, Humanitas University
- 2001 to 2014: Full Professor of General Pathology, School of Medicine, State University of Milan, Italy
- 1996 to 2005: Head, Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, Italy
- 1994 to 2001: Full Professor of General Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy
- 1987: Eleanor Roosvelt UICC Scholar, Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, NIH, Frederick, MD., USA
- 1981 - 1996 Chief, Laboratory of Immunology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, Italy.
- 1978 and 1979 Visiting fellow at the Laboratory of Immunodiagnosis, NIH, Bethesda, MD., USA, supported by a NATO Grant
- 1975 - 1976 Visiting fellow at the Department of Tumor Immunology, Chester Beatty Research Institute, Belmont, Sutton, Surrey, England
- 1973 - 1975: Research assistant Department of Tumor Immunobiology and Chemotherapy, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Innate immunity
- Cytokines
- Inflammation
- Macrophages
- Humoral Innate Immunity
- Chemokines
- Pentraxins
- Tumor Immunology
- Inflammation and Cancer
- Phagocytes
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Biotec Award
- 2000 Marie T. Bonazinga Award, Boston, USA
- 2004 Guido Venosta Award for Cancer Research by the President of the Republic of Italy
- 2006 “Onorificenza al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” (Commendatore) for scientific contribution by the President of the Republic of Italy
- 2006 European Federation of Immunological Societies – Schering Plough, 1st European Immunology Prize, Paris, France
- 2007 Galileo Galilei Prize for Research in Biomedical Sciences (International Jury)
- 2009 William Harvey Award, Oustanding Scientist 2009, London, UK
- 2000 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Member
- 2002 Member, The Henry Kunkel Society
- 2015 Eur. Soc. Clin. Invest. Albert Struyvenberg Medal
- 2015 The Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research, International Cytokine & Interferon Society
- 2015 Ferrari-Soave International Prize, Accademia delle Scienze, Turin, Italy
- 2016 OECI (Organization of European Cancer Institutes) Prize for contribution to cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy. OECI awards the OECI Prize every three years
- 2016 International Feltrinelli Prize from the Accademia dei Lincei
- 2016 Robert Koch Award, Robert Koch Stiftung, Germany
- 2016 Premio Roma allo Sviluppo del Paese
- 2017 EACR –OECI Keynote Award Lecture
- 2016 Member, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
- 2016 Member, Robert Koch Stiftung, Berlin
- 2009 ERC Advanced Grant HIIS - "PTX3 in Humoral Innate Immunity"
- 2015 ERC Advanced Grant PHII - "The humoral innate immune system: long pentraxins as a paradigm"
