Weisz Alessandro

Biography

Born in Colle Umbero (TV) on June 24, 1955 Graduated in Medicine and Surgery with praise at the University of Naples (1980), Certified by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (1980), Oncology Specialist at the University of Naples (1986) University Researcher (1984-1988), Associate Professor of Genetic Pathology (1988-2000), Professor in Medical Genetics (1989-90) and Ordinary Professor of General Pathology at the 1st Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Naples and then the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Second University of Naples (2000-2011) and then at the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Salerno (since 2011) During his career he was visiting Research Student at the Department of Pathology at the University of Toronto Medical School (1977), a post-doctoral fellow at the Kenneth Norris Cancer Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the University of California San Francisco (1980-83), long-term Fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organization at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (1987-2000) Laboratoire de Génétique Moleculaire des Eucaryotes and Fellow of the Japanese Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research at the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo (1992-3) and Kashiwa, Chiba (1996 and 1997) and Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology at the Institut d'Etude et Transfer des Génes,Université de Franche-Comte di Besançon (1987) From 1999 to 2011 he directed a laboratory for the analysis of gene expression profiles through microarrays and for the application of other functional genomic approaches, such as genotyping SNP enext generation sequencing, to the molecular study of human pathologies at the Department of General Pathology of the Second University of Naples; from 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the Naples Oncogenomics Center of the Italian Association for Cancer Research and since 2010 has been head of the Molecular Medicine Laboratory of the University of Salerno, a genomics and bioinformatics research center for the study of genetic bases and molecular pathologies of human diseases His research has been funded so far by the European Union (BIOTECH, BIOMED, ​​VI and VII Framework Program), the Ministry of Education, University and Research (PRIN and FIRB), the Health (Ricef a Finalized) and the Foreign Affairs Council National Research Program (InterOmics and Epigen Flag Program), Italian Association for Cancer Research, Fondazione Veronesi, Foundation with the South and Campania Region. He is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, the European Association for Cancer Research, the Italian Cancer Society, the Endocrine Society, the Italian Society of Pathology and Transdermal Medicine and the American Society of Pathology He has been Assistant Medical Assistant (1984-88) and Assistant (1988-92) at the 1st Chemistry-Clinical Service of the 1st Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples, Medical Assistant / Manager of 1st level at the 1st Chemistry-Clinical Service of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Second University of Naples (1992-2011) and Head of the 'Molecular Pathology and Genomics Medication Program' at the University Hospital of the University of Naples Salerno Studies (2011 to today) He is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the innovative start-up company Genomix4Life Srl, spin-off of the University of Salerno

Research Interest

Oncology