Daniela Corda

Biography

Daniela Corda obtained her "laurea" degree at the Perugia University, her PhD in Life Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and joined the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, for her post-doctoral studies. She has been working at the Consorzio Mario Negri Sud (Santa Maria Imbaro) as Group-Leader, Head of the Department of Cell Biology and Oncology and Director of R&D until 2009, when she moved to the CNR in Naples, where she works since then as Director of the Institute of Protein Biochemistry. Her scientific interests are in signal transduction and membrane lipid dynamics (see the full CV and below for details and relevant references). She is member of international advisory boards and evaluation committees, and serves regularly as reviewers for international journals.  Since 1998 she has been active in science policy focussing on career development in Europe and on gender-related issues within European organisation such as the European Life Scientist Organisation (ELSO), the EC Marie Curie Programme, the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) where she has also chaired the Working Group on the Career of Young Scientists, and is a member of the genSET Science Leaders Panel. She has recently been nominated as the Delegate of the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR) for Horizon 2020 (ERC, MSCA, FET programs) at the European Commission.

Research Interest

Cell Biology