Stefano Piccolo#
| Membership Number: | 4927 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bio.unipd.it/piccolo |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Principal Investigator at IFOM, The FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology
- 2006 - 2010 - present Full Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Italy
- 2004 - 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Italy
- 1998 - 2008 Reseacher, Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Italy
- 1995 HHMI post-doctoral fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California
- 1992 PhD student - University of Padua, School of Medicine, Padua, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- De novo generation of somatic stem cells by YAP
- Mechanotransduction
- Plasticity of cancer stem cell phenotype
- YAP/TAZ biology
- Cancer biology
- Oncogenes and tumor suppressors
Honours and Awards
- 1999 International BIOTECH Award (Milan)
- 2003 A. Minich award from Istituto Veneto Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice).
- 2005 International Swissbridge Award (Zurich).
- 2007 Chiara D’Onofrio Award (top Biomedical Award for Italian scientists under 40)
- 2011 International Debiopharm Award (Lausanne)
- 2012 International Tartufari award from Accademia Nazionale Lincei (Rome)
- 2012 Presidential Venosta award (main cancer Award in Italy) from Fondazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (Rome)
- 2015 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2017 Choh Hao Li Memorial Lectures award (UC Berkeley)
