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Provvidenza Maria Abruzzo

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Academic discipline: BIO/13 Experimental Biology

Curriculum vitae

Research fellow at Dep. of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), University of Bologna

Training

Biotechnology degree, 2006, University of Bologna (Italy); in 2014, PhD in Development and Human Reproduction, Department of Histology, Embryology and Applied Biology, University of Bologna. International experience, 2007-2008, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Division of Toxicology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

Academic career

From September 2010 to August 2012, Post-Doc Position, Department of Histology, Embryology and Applied Biology, University of Bologna; From September 2012 to August 2013 Post-Doc Position at the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna

From 12-31-2013 to 12-30-2018 , Junior assistant professor (fixed-term), Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy (Applied Biology-BIO/13). 

From March 2019 to date Post-Doc Position at the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna

Teaching

From 2014, teaching Cell Biology in BA courses of the School of Medicine.

Tutor of ungraduated students.

Research

Major research fields:

Oxidative stress in neuromuscolar and neuropsychiatric diseases

Intermittent hypoxia (IH) as a strategy to increase the cardiac resistance

Molecular and cellular adaptations of skeletal muscle subjected to exercise

Scientifics production:

Author of 27 full papers in peer-reviewed ISI journals

About 45 meeting and workshop extracts, both national and international

Research funding:

RFO 2014, RFO 2015-2016 RFO 2017 and RFO 2018 grants.

FFABR 2016.

Participation in the PRIN 2007 project and in the research project "STRESS OXIDATIVE AND ALTERATIONS OF ERITROCITAR MEMBRANES IN AUTISTIC SUBJECTS" funded by the “Fondazione del Monte di Bologna and Ravenna”

Member of numerous Scientific Societies

Awards and honors

CM Lerici scholarship

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