Guidotti Luca Professore ordinarioMedicineMED/04 Patologia generale

Short Narrative

Luca G. Guidotti (LGG) is an experimental pathologist of international renown. LGG spent many years as part of the TSRI faculty in La Jolla, California and he currently serves as Deputy Scientific Director of the largest private Research Institute in Italy, the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR) in Milan, Italy. Over the years, LGG has published his work in prestigious scientific journals such as Cell, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine and others and his research activities have been financed by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the European Research Council (ERC). LGG has been a member of numerous Study Sections at the NIH and the ERC for the allocation of funds to biomedical research.

Researcher unique identifier:        http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0205-2678

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Current Positions

2017-present  Full Professor of General Pathology, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy

2013-present  Deputy Scientific Director, Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR), Milan, Italy.

2005-present  Head, Immunopathology Unit, OSR, Milan, Italy.

2005-present   Adjunct Professor, Department of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), La Jolla, California, USA.

Previous Positions

2012-2013       Chair, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, OSR, Milan, Italy.

1999-2005       Associate Professor, Department of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, TSRI, La Jolla, California, USA.

1995-1999       Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, TSRI, La Jolla, California, USA.

1992-1995       Assistant Professor (Ricercatore), Department of General Pathology, University of Parma, Medical School, Parma, Italy.

1991-1994       Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, TSRI, La Jolla, California, USA.

Major awarded grants, honors and memberships

2010-2016       Recipient, ERC Advanced Grant: “Imaging liver immunopathology by intravital microscopy (IVM).

2008-present  Member, Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine.

2004                            Honorary Member, Academic Society of Philosophy and Medicine, University of Parma.

2003                            Member, NIH/NIAID Advisory Panel for the Study of Liver Diseases.

2001                            Gold Medal for excellence in Antiviral Research, Schering Plough Japan, Tokyo, Japan.

1998-present Member, Organizing Committee, Annual International Meeting on Hepatitis B Viruses.

1996-2014      Recipient, NIH RO1 Grant AI40696: “Regulation of HBV replication by the immune system”.

Commissions of trust

2013-present   Reviewer and Member of the Panel, LS6 Immunity and Infection Panel, ERC Starting Grants (StG).

2012              Reviewer, NIH Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 IDM-B (03).

2011-2012       Reviewer, The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Brussels, Belgium, Postdoctoral Fellowships and Senior Investigator Grants.

2010                            Reviewer, Recovery act limited competition: NIH Directors’ opportunity for research in 5 thematic areas (RC4).

2009    Chairman, European Congress of Immunology (ECI), Berlin, Germany.

2008-2010         Reviewer, BMRC & NMRC Singapore Grants.

2008    Reviewer, NIH RFA-ZDK1-GRB-G “Hepatitis B Clinical Research Network” Review.

2007-2014         External Reviewer, ERC StG and Consolidator Grants, 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2017.

2002-2003         Reviewer, The Wellcome Trust, UK, Project Grants.

2002               Reviewer, RFP-NIH-NIAID “Drug Development for Opportunistic Infections: Hepatitis C” Study Section ZAI1-GPJ-A-C1.

2001                             Reviewer, NIH Special Study Section (ZRG MBC-2).

2000-2001         Reviewer, NIH Virology (VR) B, Study Section.

1998-2000         Reviewer, NIH General Medicine (GM) 2, Study Section.

Editorial Boards

2015-present     Current Opinion of Virology

Manuscript reviewing

1995-present   Reviewer for Cell, Nature, Nature Medicine, Science, Science Immunology, Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sci., USA, The Lancet, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, PloS Pathogens, American Journal of Pathology, Journal of Immunology, Journal of Virology, Virology, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Human Gene Therapy, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology. 

Organization of scientific meetings

2017                            Co-Organizer of the international Nature Conference on “Regeneration” (http://www.nature.com/natureconferences/regen17/index.html), OSR, Milan, Italy.

1998                            Organizer of the international meeting: “The Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses”, University of California San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA.

Teaching activities

2008-2017           Adjunct Professor of General Pathology, Vita-Salute University, Medical School, Milan, Italy

 Institutional activities

2010-present     Member, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (OSR-IACUC)

2013-present     Member, Financial Conflict of Interest Committee (OSR-FCOI)

2013-present     Member, OSR Ethics Committee (OSR-EC).

2013-present     Member, OSR Committee on Cooperative Research, Patents, and Licensing.

 Professional Societies

Henry Kunkel Society, American Association of Immunology, American Society for Microbiology, Italian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA)

Advisory Boards

2020-present   Member, Scientific Advisory Board, IP-cure B, EU H2020  Program, Lyon, France

2019-present   Member, Board of Directors, Epsilen Bio, Milan, Italy

2018-present   Member, Board of Directors, Genenta Science, Milan, Italy

2017-present   Member, International Coalition to Eliminate Hepatitis B virus (ICE-HBV), Melbourne, Australia

2015-present, Member and Deputy Spokesman, Research4life, Milan, Italy

2013-present   Member, Gilead Sciences "HBV CURE Advisory Board", Foster City, CA, USA.

2004-present   Co-founder and Member of the Board of Capitalife Inc., Reno, Nevada, USA.