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Prof. Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli, President |
Since 1998 Professor Paola Castagnoli has been directing and promoting the Genopolis Consortium of Functional Genomics. She has been the Chair of Immunology and General Pathology at the University of Milano-Bicocca and is presently the Scientific Director of the A*STAR Centre of Immunology SIgN, at Biopolis in Singapore.
From 1975-1998 she was a member of the National Research Council, a Visiting Scientist at MIT, and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. The European Union awarded Prof. Castagnoli the prestigious Marie Curie Chair at the Institut Pasteur of Paris where she is also a member of the Scientific Council. Since 2002 she has been the President of the European Network of Immunology Institutes (ENII) and she directs the ENII Summer School in Advanced Immunology. She is part of the Steering Committees of various European Consortiums and Networks of Excellence supported by the EU. Additionally, Prof. Castagnoli is an EMBO member and has been part of the International SAB of various Research Institutes. She is part of the Editorial Board and ExCo of several international scientific journals. With her research group, she has published more than 150 papers in many acclaimed international peer-reviewed journals.
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