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Elisabetta Dejana

Elisabetta Dejana PhD

Pathology
Milano, Lombardia, Italy

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Elisabetta Dejana worked as post doc in Canada, at Mc Master University in Hamilton and at Mario Negri Institute in Milan. From 1993 to 96 she moved to Grenoble, (France) to direct an INSERM Unit and CEA Laboratory at the Center of Nuclear Energy (CENG). She then took part in the creation of a new research institute supported by the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (IFOM, FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology). In this Institute she currently directs a research laboratory dedicated to the study of vascular biology both in embryo development and in pathological conditions such as cancer. During her research activity Elisabetta and her group made major contributions to the characterization of the architecture of endothelial cell to cell junctions. These structures play a crucial role in the maintenance of vascular integrity, in the control of vascular permeability and tumor angiogenesis.

She teaches at the University of Milan as full professor of General Pathology but, more recently, she also accepted a full professor position at Uppsala University, Sweden, to perform advanced research on angiogenesis. She is the author of more of 320 research articles published in international Journals (H index 94), she is also a member of the Editorial Board of several international scientific Journals and Committees and she received several international prizes during her research career that include the Laurea Honoris Causa in Medical Sciences at Helsinki and Frankfurt Universities.
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