Gianluigi Forloni, PhD

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Affiliation(s): 

IRCCS; Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche

Areas of Interest: 

Alzheimer disease, neudegeneration, aging, amyloid, dementia, prion diseases, Beta Amyloid, Parkinson's disease, prion protein, pharmacology

Biography & Research: 

Gianluigi Forloni, obtained the Degree of Biological Science at the University of Milan in 1985. After two years of post doc at the Department of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, he came back to the Mario Negri Institute and between 1992 and 1996 he was the head of the Neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease Unit; since 1996 he is the Head of the Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases Lab and since 2002 the Head of the Neuroscience Department. His scientific interest is focused on the biological and genetic bases of aging-related disorders in particular Alzheimer’s disease, Prion-related encephalopathies and Parkinson’s disease. He has been member of several European committees for the examination of projects in the neuroscience field. He is now member of the Coordination group of the European IMI Consortium PharmaCog. He is President of the Italian Association on Brain Aging Research (AIRIC), member of the Scientific Committee of the Dementia section of the Italian Society of Neurology (SINDEM) and member of the European Academy of Sciences. He is the author of more than 260 peer-reviewed scientific articles and about 30 reviews or book chapters.