Neuroscience
Michele Simonato
Email: simonato.michele@hsr.it
Location: Dibit1 3A3, Floor 3, Rooms 68 and 72
Research associate, Division of neuroscience
Full professor, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Michele Simonato received his M.D. at the University of Ferrara in 1983 and specialized in Clinical Toxicology at the University of Florence in 1987. He subsequently worked for more than 3 years as a post-doctoral fellow and research assistant at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA. He is currently Full Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Ferrara, Director of the Program of Clinical Pharmacology of the Sant'Anna Hospital of Ferrara and Research Unit coordinator at the Division of Neuroscience of the San Raffaele Hospital of Milan, Italy.
Among other appointments, he has been Director of the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Ferrara, Vice-President of the Italian National Institute for Neuroscience, Chair of the joint Translational Task Force of the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE) e of the American Epilepsy Society (AES), Coordinator of a USA National Institutes of Health (NIH) Working Group for the development of biomarkers for epilepsy.
He authored more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His main research interests are on the identification of biomarkers and treatments to prevent epilepsy development in at-risk individuals and on the development of gene and cell therapy approaches for the treatment of drug-resistant focal epilepsies
1985-2001: Researcher and Assistant Professor. Institute of Pharmacology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
1986-1987: Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Department of Pharmacology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
1988-1989: Research Associate. Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
1990-1993: Consultant. Department of Medicine, Duke Center for the Advanced Study of Epilepsy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
1994-2019: Medical staff. Service of Clinical Pharmacology, Sant'Anna Hospital, Ferrara, Italy
2001-2017: Associate Professor. School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
2001-2018: Director. Neuroscience Center, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
2013-2018: President. Nuvovec srl
2005-present: Member of the Administration Council. Istituto Nazionale di Neuroscienze, Italy (May 2005 to present).
2008-present: Vice-president. Istituto Nazionale di Neuroscienze, Italy
2015-present: Professor. School of Medicine, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2017-present: Full Professor. School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy and School of Medicine, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2019-present: Director. Service of Clinical Pharmacology, Sant'Anna Hospital, Ferrara, Italy
1986 Medical Toxicology Specialization, University of Florence, Italy
1983 Medical Doctor, University of Ferrara, Italy
CNR fellow. Department of Medicine, Duke Center for the Advanced Study of Epilepsy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA (May 1989 to October 1989).
Fulbright Scholar. Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA (May 1989 to October 1989).
Chair. Task Force of the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE) on recommendations for pre-clinical epilepsy drug discovery (November 2010 to July 2013).
Chair. Joint Task Force of the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the American Epilepsy Society (AES) on Translational Research (August 2013 to present).