Pietro De Camilli

Pietro De Camilli (* 1947 in Cittiglio ) is an Italian-American biologist. He is Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology in Yale University Medical School . He also does research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

He researches the functioning of synapses and the processes by which cells excrete and absorb neurotransmitters .

De Camilli grew up in Milan and initially studied medicine at the University of Milan . After graduating as a doctor, he continued his studies at the University of Pavia , where he graduated in endocrinology in 1975 . He then went as a postdoc to Paul Greengard at the Yale University . After two years he decided to return to Italy to the University of Milan, where he worked as an associate professor until 1987. Then he went to Yale in the USA , first as an associate professor and from 1992 as a full professor.

Honourings and prices

De Camilli has been an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1987 and of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001 . In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

In 1990 he and Reinhard Jahn received the Max Planck Research Award . In 1997 he gave the Keith R. Porter Lecture . In 2017 he is President of the American Society for Cell Biology . In 2019 De Camilli received the Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine in Gold .

Web links

• De Camilli biography . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 28, 2008.
• De Camilli biography . Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved August 28, 2008.