Valtorta Flavia Professore ordinarioMedicineBIO/14 - BIOS-11/A - Farmacologia

Biography

Biography

EDUCATION
Doctor of Medicine, University of Milan, (110/110 cum laude)

Board Certification in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care

Board Certification in Psychotherapy

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1982 -1985: Residency in Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, University of Milan

1985- 1987: Post-doctoral Associate, Laboratory of Paul Greengard (Nobel laureate in Medicine), The Rockefeller University, New York

1988-1990 Post-doctoral fellow, Center for the Study of Peripheral Neuropathies, University of Milan

1991-1998: Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Milan

1996 -1998: Member of the Adjunct Faculty, The Rockefeller University, New York

1998 – 2000: Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Bari, Italy

from 1992: Head of the Unit of Neuropsychopharmacology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan
from 2000: Full Professor of Pharmacology, San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan

2004 – 2007: Rector’s Deputy for International Affairs, San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan
2007- 2010: Coordinator of the Ph.D. Course in Neuroscience, San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan

2008-2011: Dean, Ph.D. School for Molecular Medicine and Rector’s Deputy for Ph.D. Programs, San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan

2008 - 2014: Associate Director, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan

2014 – 2016: Head, Post-doctoral Programme Committee, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan

2016 – 2019: President, “Nucleo di Valutazione di Ateneo”, San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan (the “Nucleo di Valutazione di Ateneo” is the official body which is responsible for monitoring policies, performance and governance of the University and for providing a yearly report to the Ministry for Education)

2017 – 2019: Director, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan

From 2019: Dean of the School of Medicine, San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

From 2018: President, National Committee on Doping and Health Protection in Sports, Italian Ministry of Health

From 2018: Member of the Board of Directors, Zardi-Gori Foundation for the Study of Addiction

 

Listed among the “Top Italian Scientists” and member of  TIWS, the Society of “Top Italian Women scientists”.

Member of ad hoc committees for grant agencies: INSERM (France); CNRS (France); ANR (France); Medical Research Council UK, US-Israeli Bilateral Foundation; Association Française contre les Myopathies; Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, Finnish Academy of Sciences, Royal Academy of Sweden, Israel Science Foundation, Italian Ministry of Health, Italian Ministry for Research.

 

PUBLICATIONS: Author of ≅ 140 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals, including: Science (2), Nature (1), Neuron (3), Nature Genetics (1), J. Cell Biology (6), J. Clin. Invest. (1), EMBO J. (2), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (3).

 

Bibliometric parameters:

Citations: more than 10,000

h-Index: 57

 

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