Michele De Luca

This article is about the Italian biochemist; on the disc jockey of the same name see Alan De Luca .

Michele De Luca (born May 17, 1956 in Savona ) is an Italian researcher and professor of biochemistry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia . He is best known for his work on stem cells from different epithelia , which are used in translational research for the treatment of various diseases.

Life

Michele De Luca completed his medical studies at the University of Catania in 1980 and was trained as an endocrinologist at the University of Rome until 1984 . Research stays took him from 1982 to 1985 to the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (now the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ), a facility of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda , Maryland , and to the department in 1985 in Cell Biology from Harvard Medical School in Boston , Massachusetts .

De Luca was Research Group Leader from 1986 to 1992 and Deputy Head of the Stem Cell Differentiation Laboratory at the National Cancer Research Institute in Genoa from 1992 to 1996 , and Head of the Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata in Rome from 1996 to 2002 . De Luca has been Professor of Biochemistry at the Universities of Modena and Reggio Emilia since 2004 and director of the Center for Regenerative Therapy there since 2008. He is Scientific Director and, together with Graziella Pellegrini, founder (2008) of the biotechnology company Holostem Terapie Avanzate in Modena.

De Luca and Pellegrini are considered to be pioneers of stem cell therapy of the eye with stem cells of the limbus (trade name Holoclar , the first approved stem cell-based drug for novel therapies , ATMP) as well as stem cell therapy of the skin for burns , vitiligo , piebaldism or a combination of stem cell therapy and gene therapy the treatment of hereditary diseases such as epidermolysis bullosa .

In 2020 De Luca received the Louis Jeantet Prize together with Erin Schuman and Graziella Pellegrini . He has been a member of both the Accademia dei Lincei and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) since 2018 . According to Google Scholar , De Luca has an h-index of 56, according to the Scopus database an h-index of 50 (as of April 2020).

Web links

• Michele De Luca and CV at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (unimore.it)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graziella PELLEGRINI and Michele DE LUCA. In: jeantet.ch. Fondation Louis Jeantet , January 17, 2020, accessed on April 19, 2020 . 
2. ↑ De Luca, Michele. In: lincei.it. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , accessed April 19, 2020 (Italian). 
3. ↑ Michele De Luca. In: embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization , accessed April 19, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Michele DE LUCA. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed April 19, 2020 . 
5. ↑ De Luca, Michele. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed April 19, 2020 .