Maria Antonella De Matteis MD

Antonella De Matteis completed her studies in Biology at the University of L’Aquila. In 1988 she co-founded the Consorzio Mario Negri Sud Research Institute, a research center with the aim of training researchers in the South of Italy, where she also was a researcher at the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology. In 1992, she became Head of the Secretion Physiopathology Lab at CMN Sud. In 2009, she moved to TIGEM to start a new laboratory and continue her research.

Since 2011, she has been Director of the Cell Biology Program at TIGEM. In 2016, she was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant Systems Biology of Membrane Trafficking - SYSMET. She is currently a Full Professor of Biology at the Federico II University of Naples, and a Faculty Member of both the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM) and of the Open University Ph.D. Program in Human Genetics. For the past 5 years, she has been invited as a plenary keynote lecturer in over 30 different prestigious meetings and advanced schools both in Europe and in the USA.