Speaker

Michela Matteoli is Full Professor of Pharmacology at Humanitas University and Director of the Neuroscience program at Humanitas Research Hospital, Milano. For the last 8 years she has been Director of the Italian CNR Neuroscience Institute. She is a member of EMBO, Academia Europaea and  Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the oldest European academy. She serves/served in several international scientific committees, including the European Research Council (ERC), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and the Harvard-Armenise Foundation. M. Matteoli has received various prizes, including the Mid-Career Mentoring Award by the journal Nature, the Atena prize, the Feltrinelli prize for Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology and the Marcello Sgarlata prize for scientific merits. She was also awarded with the Porto Venere prize for social contribution through scientific dissemination. Her research activity focuses on the role played by the immune system on the formation and function of brain circuits. In 2022 she obtained the ERC Advanced Grant with her project MATILDA.

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