Phd in EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

email: maurizio.sorice@uniroma1.it
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POSITION

Full Professor of Immunology and General Pathology - Sapienza University of Rome

WORK EXPERIENCE

2016-today Full Professor of Pathology, Immunology and Immunopathology, Department of Experimental Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome.
2013- Qualified at Full Professor level: 06/A2 - General Pathology and Clinical Pathology - ASN 2012.
2012- Qualified as Full Professor of Clinical Pathology - SSD MED/05.
2001-2016 Associate Professor of Pathology, Immunology and Immunopathology, Department of Experimental Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome.
1993-2001 Research Investigator, Department of Experimental Medicine, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.
1992-1993 Post-graduate Researcher, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA; Dept. of Neurosciences. Supervisor: Prof. J.S. O'Brien.
1990-1993 Research Investigator, Department of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.
1986-1990 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases. "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.

Institutional responsibilities:
2017-today Director of PhD of Experimental Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome.
2013-today Member of Ph.D. Course of Experimental Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
2012-today President of First Degree, Technicians of Biomedical Laboratory, Medical School, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
2010-13 President of First Degree, Technicians of Medical Radiology, Medical School, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
2010-today Director of II level Master in "Leadership, teaching and research in the healthy professions".
2002-13 Member of Ph.D. Course of Human Pathology, “Sapienza” University of Rome
2000-today Head of the Laboratory of Autoimmunity - DLC05 Immunology and Immunopathology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, p.le Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy.

Educational activities:
2010-today Teacher in Master in "Leadership, teaching and research in the healthy professions".
2009-today Teacher in the Schools of Speciality in Clinical Pathology, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
2006-today Professor of Immunology, Undergraduate Program in Technicians of Biomedical Laboratory, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
2001- today Professor of Immunology and Immunopathology, Medical School, “Sapienza” University of Rome.

Education and training:
1989- Specialist in "Allergology and Immunology", "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.
1986 Graduate, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy, School of Medicine.

Management experience - grant support:
He has been Principal Investigator, and acted as Coordinator, in several national (PRIN 2007, 2009, 2017, 2020, The Ministry of Health, FILAS - Regione Lazio, Ateneo La Sapienza) and international (Project Integrated Actions Italy - Spain 2008) grants.

Referee and Editorial activities:
- Member of Editorial Board of Advances in International J Immunol and Med One;
- Reviewer for several high-impact international journals including Blood, Biochim Biophys Acta, Biochemistry, Cell Death and Differentiation. Clin Immunol, Exp Cell Res, FEBS Lett, Gene Therapy, Mol Biol, J Cell Science, J Neurochem, J Lipid Res, J Histochem Cytochem, Arch Med Res, Plos Pathogens.
- “Reviewer” for The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research;
- “Reviewer” for Agence Nazionale de la Recherche (ANR), France;
- “Reviewer” for Wittgenstein Award 2017;
- “Reviewer” fori SIR projects;
- Component of "Albo dei Revisori MIUR";
- Curator of the text: "Patologia Generale e Fisiopatologia", eds. Piccin, 2018.

Memberships of scientific societies:
• Member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology;
• Member of Italian Society of Pathology Board (SIP);
• Academic Member of "Accademia Medica" of Rome, Italy.

Patent:
Patent WO2010121714: "Complexes between phospholipids and protein vimentin, and in vitro methods for the detection of antibodies against these complexes".

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Over the last years, the main research interests of Prof. Maurizio Sorice have been focused on the immunopathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, the identification of "new" autoantibodies in autoimmune diseases, the regulation of autophagy and cell apoptosis and the functional role of lipid rafts.
He is author of several publications in peer reviewed international journals in the fields of Immunology, General Pathology and Biochemistry.
Speaker and chairperson to many national and international scientific congresses.

Main scientific collaborations:
Dr Fabienne Mazerolles, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France;
Dr Roya Khosravi-Far, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA;
Dr Steve Gonias, Head of Department of Pathology, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA;
Dr Mauro Degli Esposti, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK and Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy;
Dr José C. Fernández-Checa, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic i Provincial, Villarroel, Barcelona, Spain;
Dr Munther A Khamashta, The Rayne Institute, Guy's, King's and St Thomas School of Medicine, London, UK;
Prof. Guido Valesini, Rheumatological Unit, Dept of Internal Medicine and Clinical Specialities, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy;
Dr Walter Malorni, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Summary of Scientific Achievements:
Papers (International): 200 (Scopus)
Total citations: > 10000
Hirsch (H) index: 41 (Scopus); 43 Google Scholar