Cesare Montecucco, Prof.

Professor Emeritus of General Pathology & Professore Emeritus of Neurosciences

Address

35121 Padova

Contact

cesare.montecucco@gmail.com

Contact information

University of Padova
Department of Biomedical Sciences National Research Council Institute of Neuroscience
Emeritus Neurosciences, CNR Neuroscience Institute Emeritus of General Pathology, University of Padova
Via Ugo Bassi 58/B
35121 Padova
Telephone: +39 049 8276058
Fax: +39 049 8276049
Email: cesare.montecucco@gmail.com
http://www.biomed.unipd.it/people/montecucco-cesare/

Biographical Info

Education:
1971: University of Padova, graduated in chemistry cum Laude
1975: University of Padova, graduated in biology cum Laude
1975-78: long-term EMBO fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK (Post-doctoral advisors: James C. Metcalfe and Roger Tsien).

Performed research stages or sabbaticals at:
- Institut Pasteur, Paris (1984 with J.P. Changeux)
- University of Utrecht (1990 with Ben de Kruijff)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (1997 with M. Zerial)
- Institut Pasteur, Paris (2002 with M. Mock)
- Universidad de Costa Rica (2008 with JM Gutierrez & B. Lomonte).

Positions:
1978-1983: Assistant, then Associate Professor of General Pathology, University of Padova
1983-1986: Associate Professor of General Pathology, University of Padova
1986-2018: Full Professor of General Pathology, University of Padova
2019-present Professor Emeritus of General Pathology at the Universiyt od Padova and Professore Emeritus of Neurosciences at the National Research Council Institute for Neuroscience
1999-2004: member of the EMBO Council
2002-2004: coordinator of the Member & Fellowship Committee and of the Publication Committee of EMBO
2001-2007: member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the CNRS Centre d’Immunologie de Luminy, Marseille, France
2002-2007: member of the Scientific Council of the Institut Pasteur of Paris.
2004-2011: member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Zentrum fur Infektionbiologie, University of Wurzburg, Germany.
2004-2010: Deputy Director of the Scuola Galileiana of Padova
2011-present: member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Biomedical Research of Bellinzona (Switzerland).
2013-present: member of the AERES France evaluation committees at Pasteur, CEA-Saclay etc.
2014-present: member of the Scientific Council of the Ehrlich and Darmstaedter Prize for Medicine of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation
2013-2016 and 2018-present: member of the ISAC of the Armenise-Harvard Medical School Foundation
2017: member of the Evaluation Committee of the Laboratory for Biomolecular Research at the Paul Scherrer Institut
2018: member of the Search Committee for the Director of the Institute for Biomedical Research of Bellinzona (Switzerland).

Services for the University of Padova or the MIUR
1992-2011: Coordinator of the Ph.D. Course in “Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathology” of the University of Padova.
1994-2002: Director of the National Research Council Center for Biomembranes in Padova
1997-1998: Member of the “Commissione Nazionale del Concorso a Professore Associato in Patologia Generale (MED04)
1997-2001: member of the “Nucleo di Valutazione dell’Università di Padova”
2001-2018: Coordinator of the “Commissione di Progettazione della Laura Magistrale in Biologia Sanitaria” and then Coordinatore of this Laurea and member of the “Commissione Didattica della Laurea in Biologia Sanitaria”.
2002-2007: member of the “Commissione Risorse della Facoltà di Scienze MFN dell’Università di Padova
2004-2014: valutatore VQR per il Ministero MIUR.
2014-2017: member of the “Osservatorio della Ricerca dell’Università di Padova”
2014-2018: coordinator of the “Commissione Scientifica del Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche dell’Università di Padova”


Performed research stages or sabbaticals at:
- Institut Pasteur, Paris (1984 with J.P. Changeux)
- University of Utrecht (1990 with Ben de Kruijff)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (1997 with M. Zerial)
- Institut Pasteur, Paris (2002 with M. Mock)
- Universidad de Costa Rica (2008 with JM Gutierrez & B. Lomonte).
Scientific Prizes & Academic Honors:
1993: Award of the Shipley Institute of Medicine of the Harvard Medical School for achievements in Microbial Pathogenesis.
1994: elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
1998: Award of the Italian Consortium for Biotechnologies for achievements in the study of
bacterial toxins and vaccines.
1999: elected member of the Academia Europeae.
1999: elected member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
2000: Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Hygiene und Mikrobiologie.
2003: Masi Foundation Prize for special contributions to science.
2004: Feltrinelli Prize for Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology of the Accademia dei Lincei.
2004: elected member of the Leopoldina German Academy of Science
2006: elected member of the “Accademia dei Lincei” of Italy.
2008: elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology.
2008: Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary International
2009: Redi Prize of the International Society on Toxinology
2009: Hatheway medal for research on botulism of the USA Botulism InterAgencies (FDA, CDC, NIH, US Army, US Department of Agricolture and US Geological Survey)
2009: elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology
2011: Ehrlich and Darmstaedter Prize for Medicine of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation.
2015-present: elected Secretary of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
2015-2018: elected Secretary of the International Neurotoxins Association
2018: Career Prize of the Rete Italiana della Tossina Botulinica, Roma.
2018: Career Award of the Italian Society for Toxicology
2019: Lifetime Achievement Prize of the International Neurotoxins Association


Special Lectures, 2006-2019
- june 1st, 2006, Keynote Lecture at the Italian Society for Proteins, Pavia, Italy
- june 24, 2006, International Lecture on the “Biology and Pharmacology of Botulinum Neurotoxin” , Merz Foundation, Rostock (Germany)
- jan 26, 2007 Keynote Lecture at the Medical Academy of Turin, Italy
- feb 28, 2007, Special Seminar on the Mechanism of action of snake presynaptic PLA2 neurotoxins, Istituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- may 4, 2007, Special Seminar on Presynaptic Protein Neurotoxins at the International Center for Genetics and Biotechnology of the United Nations, Trieste
- july 13, 2008, Keynote Lecture at the Gordon Conference on “Microbial Toxins Pathogenicity”, Proctor Academy, Andover, N.H.
- jan 20, 2009 Keynote Lecture at the XV Congress of the Italian Society for Toxicology, Verona, Italy
- march 16, 2009 Redi Lecture at the World Congress of the International Society of Toxinology, Recife, Brazil
- oct 21, 2009 C. Hatheway Lecture and Medal at the 46th Congress of the Interagency Botulism Research Committees (IBRCC), Alexandria (VA)
- nov 18, 2010, Keynote Lecture at the Congress of the Brasilian Society for the Advancement on Biochemical and Immunological Research, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- june 18, 2011, EMBO Lecturer at the XV European Congress on Bacterial Toxins, Oslo, Norway
- july, 2011, special Paul-Ehrlich year lecture at the Paul-Ehrlich Institute, Frankfurt
- jan 10, 2013, Special Lecture at the Rome Medical Academy, Rome, Italy
- Keynote Lecture at the "Venoms" Congress, Oxford sept 24-26, 2013
- Plenary Lecture at the Congress of the International Neurotoxins Associations held in Lisbon, january 2015.
- Plenary Lecture at the 2015 Congress of the Italian Society for Toxicology, Milan.
- Plenary Lecture at the annual congress of the British Group for the Study of Botulinum Neurotoxins held in Oxford, 18-19 sept, 2016.
- Speaker at the G20 meeting in Halle, Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences, Jan 24 e 25, 2017.
- Speaker at the 4th Joint Conference of Leopoldina, Academie Fraçaise, Royal Society and Accademia dei Lincei to create West Balkan Research Foundation,the Rome may 30- jun1, 2018
- Special lecture at the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists, may 21-24, 2019, Naples

- Opening Lecture of the 15th Congress of the International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists setp 30th – oct 2nd, Milan, Italy
- Opening Lecture of the 11th Congress of CNR Neuroscience Institute, oct 2nd – 4th, 2019, Pisa, Italy


- Lecture at the Oxford Venom Conference, Oxford, sept 16-17, 2020

Prof. C. Montecucco has published 256 experimental papers, 3 books and 83 Reviews/Commentaries/Hypothesis Articles, which received 34216 citations, H index: 94
( Google Scholar oct 2020).

Editorial Boards Member of the following Scientific journals:

"Cellular Microbiology": 1998-present
Toxicon: 2000-present
International Journal of Medical Microbiology: 2002-present
Molecular Aspects of Medicine: 1996-present
IUBMB Life 2007-present
BMC- Biology 2011-present
Toxins: 2016- present

European Science Foundation Expert 2018-2020

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