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Laura Menotti

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology

Academic discipline: BIO/19 Microbiology

Curriculum vitae

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
09/05/2022 - present: Associate Professor, academic discipline: BIO/19 Microbiology, FaBiT - Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna
16/10/2012 - 08/05/2022: Assistant Professor, academic discipline: BIO/19 Microbiology, FaBiT - Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna
01/10/2002 - 15/10/2012: Assistant Professor, academic discipline: BIO/19 Microbiology, Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, University of Bologna

EDUCATION:
1994 Degree in Biological Sciences, biomolecular curriculum, 5 years, University of Pisa
1999 Graduate School in Cellular Biology and Physiology, 4 years (XX cycle, 4 anni), Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna


POST-DOC FELLOWSHIPS:
1999 - 2002 "Assegno di Ricerca" (1999-2002) Department of Experimental Pathology - Section of Mircrobiology and Virology, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

EXPERIENCES IN OTHER LABORATORIES AND ABROAD:
1997 IRBM, Istituto per la Ricerca Biomolecolare "P. Angeletti", Pomezia (RM), Italy (as Visiting Graduate Student)
1997 - 1998 Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milano (as Visiting Graduate Student)
1999 Kovler Viral Oncology Laboratories, University of Chicago, USA (3 months as Visiting Research Associate)
2006 Institut für Virologie, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germania (3 months as FEMS-ESCMID Research Fellow)
2009 - 2011 Università di Genova e IST- Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, (for scientific collaboration)
2012 - 2013 AMI - Adolphe Merkle Institute, Marly (Fribourg), Svizzera (9 months as Visiting Scientist)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
1999 "Premio tesi di dottorato 1999" of SIMGBM (Società Italiana di Microbiologia Generale e Biotecnologie Microbiche)
2006 "Joint FEMS-ESCMID Research Fellowship" 2006, for the research: "Generation of recombinant viruses retargeted to tumor cells for the design of oncolytic herpesviruses"
2009 Premio della Fondazione Adriano Buzzati-Traverso (FABT), Fondo Giovanni Magni, for the paper "Inhibition of human tumor growth in mice by an oncolytic herpes simplex virus designed to target solely HER-2-positive cells", 2009, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106(22):9039-44



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