Chiara Zurzolo#
| Membership Number: | 6542 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/fr/team/membrane-traffic-and-pathogenesis/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6048-6602 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - date Co-President of the Pasteur Weizmann Council
- 2020 - date Head of the Scientific Thematic “Brain connectivity and Neurodegenerative Disease” for the Institut Pasteur
- 2015 - date Professor, Institut Pasteur
- 2014 - 2019 Director, Cell Biology and Infection Department, Institut Pasteur
- 2006 - 2010 Deputy Director, Cell Biology and Infection Department, Institut Pasteur
- 2003 - date Head, Membrane Traffic and Pathogenesis Unit, Institut Pasteur
- 2000 - 2003 Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Naples University Federico II
- 1994 - 2000 Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Naples University Federico II
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein and lipid trafficking in polarized epithelial cells
- Imaging techniques in living and fixed cells
- Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs)
- Role of protein trafficking in diseases in epithelial and neuronal cells
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - 2019 Radcliffe Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, MA, USA
- 2015 - date Professor, Institut Pasteur
- 2015 Elected EMBO Member
- 2011 Hugo et Valérie Ramniceanu Prize for research on neuro-degenerative diseases
