Stefano Piccolo MSc, PhD

Stefano Piccolo is a Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Padua, a Principal Investigator at IFOM, the FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology (2017), and a member of the Management Committee of the Human Technopole Foundation since October 2018.

He obtained his MSc in Biology at the University of Padua in 1991 and, later in 1995, his PhD from the same University. Following his PhD, he carried out his post-doctoral work at the University of California Los Angeles/Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 1998, he was appointed as faculty at the University of Padua Medical School, where he served as Associate Professor of Embryology (from 2004) and then as Professor of Molecular Biology (from 2006).

He is a member of the AIRC Scientific Advisory Board since 2015 and the Director of the PhD program in Molecular Medicine at the University of Padua (2012).

For his scientific achievements, he received the honors of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)’s membership in 2007 and of “Accademia dei Lincei” in 2014, and numerous national and international awards, such as the BIOTECH Award (1999), the A. Minich award (2003), the Swiss bridge Award (2005), the Chiara D’Onofrio Award (2007), the Debiopharm Award (2011), the Tartufari award (2012), the Venosta-FIRC award (2012), the European Research Committee advanced grant (2015) and the Choh Hao Li Memorial Lectures award of Berkeley (California – 2017).