Biography
POSITION TITLES: Full Professor and Chair of Vascular pathology and Regeneration; British Heart Foundation (BHF) Senior research Fellow; Deputy Head of Research in the School of Clinical Sciences
EDUCATION/TRAINING University of Florence, Italy BSc in Biological Science (1987-92) University of California San Francisco, CA, USA travel fellowship (1995) University of Catania (awarding institution for a multicentric PhD program including Florence and Cagliari Universities), Italy PhD in Neurovegetative Medicine/Pharmacology (1996-1999) IDI-Rome, Italy (postdoc) (1998-1999)
Previous positions
- Laboratory Director, Italian National Institute of Biosystem and Biostructures,Alghero,Italy(2001-05)
- Senior Lecturer and BHF Basic Science Lecturer, Universityof Bristol(2005-2008)
- Reader and BHF Basic Science Lecturer,UniversityofBristol(2008-2010)
Honors
- Italian Society of Cardiology (SIC) International Fellowship (2001)
- American Heart Association New European Investigator Travel Award (2001)
- European Vascular Genomics Network of Excellence (EVGN) membership (2003)
- British Heart Foundation Basic Science Lectureship (2005)
- Editorial Boards of British Journal of Pharmacology (20006-2009), Circulation Research (since 2007), Vascular Pharmacology (since 2008), ATVB (since 2008) and PlosOne (since 2010)
- Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) (2007)
- Elected to the Bristol Heart Institute steering committee (2008)
- Michel Davis Early-Career prize (2009)
- Circulation Research Top Review Award (golden category: 2009 and 2011; platinum category: 2010)
- BHF Basic Science Senior Research Fellow (2010)