Tacchetti Carlo Professore ordinarioMedicineBIO/16 – Anatomia Umana

Professor of Anatomy

University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Medical School

 

Director

Experimental Imaging Center

San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan

 

Education

7/1982 – Naples (I), University of Naples, II Medical School – M.D. degree, cum laude

7/1987 – Naples (I), University of Naples, II Medical School – Oncology board, cum laude

 

Academic positions

11/1992 − 10/2000 – Associate Professor of Anatomy – Genova (I), University of Genova, Medical School

11/2000 – 2/2017 – Full Professor of Anatomy – Genova (I), University of Genova, Medical School

3/2017- present – Full Professor of Anatomy – Milan (I), University Vita-Salute, S. Raffaele, Medical School

 

Research experience

1979 – 1982 – Naples (I) – Institute of General Pathology, University of Naples, II Medical School. Training student

1980 – Rehovot (IL) Weizman Institute of Science. Training student

1981- Bethesda, Md, (USA), National Cancer Institute. Training student

1983/1986 – Bethesda, Md, (USA), National Cancer Institute. Post doc

1989 – Heidelberg (D) EMBL. Visiting Scientist

1985/1990 – Genova (I), Genova (I), Lab. Cell Differentiation, Natl. Inst. Cancer. Staff scientist

1990/1991- Paris (F), CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure. EU Senior Scientist

2002/2012 – Genova (I), IFOM-IEO campus – Section c/o University of Genova. Laboratory Chief

2004/2012 – MicroSCoBiO (Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy in Biomedicine) Research Center, University of Genova, Medical School. Founder and Director.

2010 – today – Milano (I), Division Center for Experimental Imaging – Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan. Director

 

Honors

1982   Fogarty International Fellowship award

1983   Fogarty International Fellowship award

1984   Fogarty International Fellowship award

1989   EMBO Fellowship

1990   Commission of the European Communities Training Grant in Cancer Research Fellowship

 

Research Interests

1986 – 2002 Cell-Cell and Cell-ECM interactions in cartilage development

1996 – 2015 Melanosome biogenesis – Ocular albinism 1

2000 – today Cancer biology, ErbB receptors, endocytosis, signaling

1986 – today development of advanced EM and Light microscopy techniques