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Francesco Cecconi

Francesco Cecconi PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology
Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Hovedstaden), Denmark

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Full Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Member of the AIRC Scientific Committee, Unit Head at the Danish Cancer Society Research Center in Copenhagen, Denmark and member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

As Max -Planck-researcher Institute (MPI of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany) in the field of developmental cell death, he has described the in vivo function of Apaf1 (1997), a master regulator of mitochondria-dependent apoptosis. In 1999 he was AWARDED Telethon Scientist position, and since then he is the Head of the Molecular Embryology Lab at the Department of Biology University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy . After His seminal work on the pro-autophagic molecule Ambra1 (2007), he Became a world-leader in the field of autophagy, while producing in parallel key papers on the role played by apoptotic molecules in synaptic degeneration.

He is author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Cell, and Nature Cell Biology. In recent years, he has developed a strong expertise in molecular neurobiology to study the molecular mechanisms underlie That memory formation in mouse models of neurodegenerative disorders. Also, his team is dissecting the regulatory network of autophagy, a central player in ontogenesis and cancer progression.
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