Education and training Claudio Franceschi was Born on May
16, 1946 in Frosinone, Italy.
1961-1964 Predoctoral fellowship from the University of
Bologna;
1967 "Lepetit" prize for one of the best M.D. thesis;
1968-1969 Postdoctoral fellowship from the Minister of
Education;
1970 Fellowship from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the
Tumor Biology Dept.,
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, directed by Dr. George
Klein;
1971 "G. Petragnani" prize from the "Istituto Sieroterapico
SCLAVO", for an italian young immunologist;
1969-1981 Assistant Professor of General Pathology, Faculty of
Medicine, University of Bologna
Employment and Research Experience
1967: Thesis In Experimental Oncology
1968-1970: Tumor Immunology
1969-1978: Experimental Oncology and Immunology
1978-1981: Immunology, DNA repair
1978-1979 Associate Professor of General Pathology, Faculty of
Medicine, University of Padua;
1979-1981 Associate Professor of General Pathology, Faculty of
Medicine, University of Bologna;
1981-1985 Full Professor of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Padua
1985 - Oct.1998 Full Professor of Immunology, Faculty of
Medicine, University of Modena
From November 1998 to present: Full Professor of Immunology, at
the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bologna;
From July 1996 to 31/12/2005: Scientific Director of the Italian
National Research Centre on Aging (INRCA), of the Italian
Ministry of Health.
From February 2002 to 2006: Director of the Interdepartmental
Centre “L. Galvani” of the University of Bologna for studies
on Bioinformatics, Biophysics and
Biocomplexity. About 40 scientists from the Departments of
Physics, Informatics, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics,
Economics, Experimental Pathology,
Evolutionary Biology and Veterinary Science participate to the
Centre.
2004 - 2009 Coordinator of the European Project "GeHA" Genetics
of Healthy Aging, FP6.
