Giampietro Schiavo#
| Membership Number: | 7197 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/people/gipi-schiavo |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4319-8745 |
| X: | @SchiavoMNPlab |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/giampietro-schiavo-1066902b/?originalSubdomain=uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Deputy Director (Strategy), UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UK
- 2017 - present UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL Professorship
- 2014 - present Lead Academic Scientist, ARUK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, UCL, UK
- 2013 - present Professor of Cellular Neurobiology, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, UK
- 2007 - 2013 Honorary Professor, Dept of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, UK
- 2003 - 2013 Senior Group Leader (tenured), Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, UK
- 2003 - 2006 Honorary Reader, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UCL, UK
- 1996 - 2002 Group Leader, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, UK
- 1992 - 1995 Senior Researcher, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy
- 1983 - 1991 Research Associate, Institute of General Pathology, University of Padua, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular neurobiology
- Tauopathies
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Molecular mechanism of action of botulinum and tetanus neurotoxins at the mammalian synapse
- Key aspects of the mechanism of regulation of axonal transport in neurons
- Impairment of axonal transport in main pathogenic mechanism in neurodegenerative diseases
- Peripheral neuropathies
Honours and Awards
- Awards
- 2022 Amedeo e Frances Herlitzka Award in Physiology, Academy of Sciences of Torino (I)
- 2021 Outstanding Supervision Award, University College London (UK)
- 2002 Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation Career Development Award
- 1995 International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN) Young Scientist Award
- 1993 Award of the Italian National Academy of Sciences "Dott Giuseppe Borgia"
- 1988 Award for the best student of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Padua (I)
- Honors
- 2019-present Foreign Fellow, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IVSLA)
- 2014-present Fellow, Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
- 2011-present Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 2010-present Member, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- Fellowships
- 2009 CaRiPaRo Foundation Visiting Professorship at the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori, University of Padua (I)
- 1994 Long -erm European Molecular Biology Organization fellowship (Dr JE Rothman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York (NY)
