Martino Gianvito

Biography

Born in Bergamo in 1962, he graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pavia in 1987, where he specialized in Neurology in 1991. From 1990 to 1992 he has done research abroad at the Department of Neurology of the Karolinska Institute of Stockholm and at the Department of Neurology of the University of Chicago. From 1997 to 2008 he directed the Neuroimmunology Unit and since 2008 heads the Neuroscience Division of the San Raffaele Institute of Milan. He is an ordinary professor of applied biology at the Vita-Salute University of Milan and a honorary professor at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London. He was among the founders of the Italian Association of Neuroimmunology (AINI), which was chairman from 2009 to 2012, and the European School of Neuroimmunology (ESNI) and the Global Schools of Neuroimmunology (GSNI), which is still the scientific coordinator. From 2010 to 2012 he was Vice President and from 2012 to 2014 was President of the International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI). He is a member of the scientific council of numerous national and international scientific societies and has gained numerous scientific awards during the years including the Rita Levi-Montalcini Prize. He is author of over 250 scientific publications. His scientific interests go from the study of the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying the central nervous system disorders of the immune system to the development of gene therapy tools and innovative therapies utilizing neural stem cells for the treatment of these disorders.

Research Interest

Medicine and Surgery