Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli
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Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli | |
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| Alma mater | University of Florence |
| Occupation | Former scientific director of the Singapore Immunology Network |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Immunology |
Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːola ritˈtʃardi kastaɲˈɲɔːli]; born September 14, 1948) is an Italian immunologist based in Siena.[1] Paola is the scientific director of Toscana Life Sciences Foundation (TLS) in Siena.[2][3] She was former scientific director of the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN).[4]
Between 1998 and 2010, Ricciardi-Castagnoli was Chair of Immunology and General Pathology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. From 1975-1998 she was a member of the National Research Council of Italy in Milan and has also been a visiting scientist at MIT and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She graduated at the University of Florence in Biological Sciences and did a PhD in Immunology at the University Catholic of Louvain in Belgium.[5]
Ricciardi-Castagnoli is a member of EMBO and of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Since 2002, she has been the President of the European Network of Immunology Institutes (ENII)[6] and Chair of the IFREC-SIgN Winterschool on Advanced Immunology.[7]
Ricciardi-Castagnoli, former adjunct Professor of Immunology at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Max Planck Institute for Infectiology in Berlin and of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche's Biology and Health Strategic Board in Paris. She was a former member of the Scientific Council of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. In 2007, together with Philippe Kourilsky, she founded the Singaporean Society of Immunology (SgSI).[8] On June 2, 2012 the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, awarded her with the honour as an officer of Order of the Star of Italy for her work conducted in Singapore.[9]
