Daniela Corda PhD

Daniela Corda is Director of the Institute of Protein Biochemistry of the National Research Council (CNR) in Naples, Italy. She obtained her first/master degree at the Perugia University, Italy, her PhD in Life Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and joined the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, for her post-doctoral studies. In 1987 she was one of the founders of the Consorzio Mario Negri Sud (Santa Maria Imbaro) where she served as Group-Leader, Head of the Department of Cell Biology and Oncology and Director of R&D until 2009, when she moved to the CNR in Naples. Her scientific interests are in signal transduction and membrane lipid dynamics.