Alberto Luini#
| Membership Number: | 3718 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2009 Research Director, Institute of Protein Biochemistry, the National Research Council, Naples
- 2004 - 2009 Director of the Cell Biology and Oncology Department at the Mario Negri Sud Institute, S. Maria Imbaro (Chieti), Italy
- 1988 Head, Laboratory of Intracellular Membrane Traffic, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro (Chieti), Italy
- 1987 Co-founder of the Consorzio Mario Negri Sud Research Insitute, S. Maria Imbaro (Chieti), Italy
- 1986 - 1987 Chief of the Neuroendocrinology Research Unit, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
- 1983 - 1986 Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health, (US) supervision by Nobel laureate Dr. J. Axelrod
- 1979 - 1983 Visiting Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neurobiology, Rehovot, Israel
- 1975 - 1978 Research Fellow, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, supervision of Dr. L. Manara and Prof. S. Garattini
- 1974 Internship - Niguarda Division of "Ca’ Granda" Hospital, "Rizzi" Department of Medicine, Milan, Italy
- 1973 MD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan
Fields of Scholarship
- Bioimaging technology – correlative microscopy
- Morpho-functional organization of intracellular membrane transport in living cells
- Regulation and control systems of the intracellular membrane transport apparatus
- Mechanisms of membrane fission
- Signal transduction
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Member of the European Research Council (ERC) Evaluation Panel, European commission, Brussels
- 2013 - present Member of the Steering Committee of the Regional Science District “Campania Bioscience”
- 2013 - present Delegate of the Ministry to the EuroBioImaging International Steering Committee.
- 2012 - present Member of the X ray and Neutron Sources Committee, CNR
- 2012 - present Member of the Science Advisory Board, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble
- 2011 - present National Coordinator of the ESFRI European Imaging Infrastructure EuroBioImaging
- 2011 - present Member of the Review Panel of the EMBL Core Facilities and Technologies.
- 2011 Member of the Faculty of 1000
- 2010 Qualified for the position of Institute Director at the Italian National Research Council
- 2004 Member of the Biological Sciences Evaluation Panel for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
- Since 2004 Permanent EMBO Member
- 2002 Member of the Evaluation Committee, Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University
- 2002 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Association of Cancer Research (AIRC)
- 2001 Member of the International Affairs Committee, ASCB (American Society of Cell Biology)
- 2000 Emilio Trabucchi Foundation Medal
