Biology of myelin
Maurizio D'Antonio
Email: dantonio.maurizio@hsr.it
Location: DIBIT1 A1, Floor 4, Room 22
Group Leader, Biology of Myelin
Dr. Maurizio D’Antonio received his MSc from the University of Milan in 1998 and his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from University College London in 2005. He started his independent research program as Group Leader of the Biology of Myelin Unit at San Raffaele in 2014. The D’Antonio lab has a long-standing interest in Schwann cell myelination, and has been using transgenic mouse models to understand the pathomechanisms of various forms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. His work has been pivotal in identifying the activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) as a key mechanism for many CMT mutations, and his laboratory is now devoted to understand how myelin protein misfolding causes disease, and how the UPR can be targeted for therapeutic intervention. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA), and Board member of the International Charcot-Marie-Tooth and Related Neuropathies Consortium (CMTR).
2005 PhD Cell and Molecular Biology, University College London (UCL), London, UK
1998 MSc Biomolecular Sciences, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
2014-present Group Leader, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2011-2014 Project Leader, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2005-2011 Postdoctoral fellow, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2000-2005 PhD candidate, University College London (UCL), London, UK
2014 Young Investigator Award, Ministero della Salute
2011 Young Investigator Award, Ministero della Salute
2009 Arthur K. Asbury Award, Peripheral Nerve Society Meeting, Wurzburg, Germany
2004 MRC-UK fellowship