Speaker
Feliciano Protasi
CAST - University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti Pescara, Italy
Biography :
Feliciano Protasi directs a multi-disciplinary research program mainly supported by Telethon ONLUS (Italy) and by the National Institute of Health (USA). After graduating in 1991 in Biological Sciences at the University of Perugia (Italy), Dr. Protasi moved to the USA to join the lab. of Prof. Clara Franzini-Armstrong (1993-1997) at the Univ. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), before moving to Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA), joining the lab. of Prof. Paul D. Allen. Dr. Protasi returned to Italy in 2002 as Associate Professor and soon established his own lines of research, mainly focused in unraveling the patho-physiological mechanisms underlying ageing and myopathies caused by alterations in Ca2+ handling in striated muscles.
