Clinical neuroimmunology
Roberto Furlan

Email: furlan.roberto@hsr.it
Location: DIBIT2, Floor 5, A4
Director, Institute of Experimental Neurology
Group leader, Clinical neuroimmunology Unit
Roberto Furlan graduated in medicine at the University of Milano in 1991. In 1992 he was visiting scientist in the Department of Neurology of the University of Chicago, working on HTLV-I. In 1993 he was in the Clinical Laboratories of the Sao Rafael Hospital in Salvador-Bahia, in Brazil. From 1994 to 1995 he worked as a post-doc in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh, on HSV-1-mediated gene therapy of the central nervous system. Using HSV-1-derived vectors he performed gene therapy studies in multiple sclerosis models and in 2001 he obtained his PhD at the Open University of London working in the Neuroimmunology Unit of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele. where he became also tenure-track research assistant, then senior scientist, and completed in 2007 the residency in neurology. Since 2004, non-tenured professor at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele. Since 2009, Group leader and then Head of Unit of the Clinical neuroimmunology Unit, Institute of Experimental Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele. Since 2011 Secretary treasurer of the International Society of NeuroImmunology. Since 2013 Academic Editor for Plos One. Roberto Furlan was awarded the De Visart" Award for Neurological Research, in 1995; the Teva and Marion Hoechst Award on Multiple Sclerosis from the European Charcot Foundation, in 1999; and the Rita Levi Montalcini Award from Italian Multiple Sclerosis Asssociation in 2009.
2001 PhD, Open University, London, UK
1992 Board Certified Medical Licensure, University of Milano, Italy
1991 Medical Degree, University of Milano, Italy (110/110 and honours)
2022-today Director of the Institute of Experimental Neurology, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2017-2021 Deputy Director of the Institute of Experimental Neurology, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2009-today Head of Clinical Neuroimmunology Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2004-today Lecturer, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
2002-2008 Research assistant, Neuroimmunology Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
1996-2001 Post-doctoral fellow, Neuroimmunology Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffele, Milan, Italy
1994-1995 Post-doctoral fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
1993 Visiting Scientist, Clinical Laboratories, São Rafael Hospital, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
1992 Visiting Scientist, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, USA
1990-1994 Post-doctoral fellow, Neuroimmunology Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
1984-1985 Research Fellow, “M. Negri” Institute for Pharmacology Research, Milano, Italy
2014 Abilitation as Full Professor in General Pathology and in Applied Biology
2012 Board Member of the Europan School of Neuroimmunology
2011 IICA Best Abstract Awards for the paper “Microvesicles in the cerebrospinal fluid reflect microglia/macrophage activation in rodent and human neuro-inflammation”. Riccione 28 sept.-1 oct.
2010 Secretary-Treasurer of the International Neuroimmunology Society – ISNI
2010 Secretary of the Residential Courses of Neuroimmunology – CRNI
2009-2010 Scientific Board member of the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association
2014-2016 EC evaluator for the Sixth Framework Programme Project “Neuropromise”
2009 Board member of the Italian Neuroimunology Association – AINI
2009 Rita Levi Montalcini Award, AISM, Roma, Italy
2002 European Neurological Society award for the scientific paper “Vaccination with amyloid-beta peptide induces autoimmune encephalomyelitis in C57BL/6 mice”, Berlin 22-26 June.
1999 Teva and Marion Hoechst Award on MultipleSclerosis, European Charcot Found
1995 “De Visart” Award for Neurological Research, University of Milano, Italy
1994 Fellowship, “Istituto Superiore di Sanità”, Roma, Italy
1992 Fellowship, “Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla”, Genova, Italy