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CURRICULUM VITAE MAURIZIO PREVIATI

Date and place of birth: Ferrara (Italy), 1961, May, 30.   Nationality: Italian

Affiliation and official address: Dept. of Translational Medicine, University of Ferrara,  c/o CUBO Via Fossato di Mortara 70, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.

Telephone: +39 0532-455851 (office)

email: prm@unife.it

EDUCATION
1987: Biological Sciences degree (University of Ferrara)

CAREER/EMPLOYMENT
1988-1990: Research fellow at  Human Anatomy (University of Ferrara)
1991-2001: Laboratory Technician (University of Ferrara)
2001-present: Assistant Professor, Human Anatomy (University of Ferrara)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
1990: Research fellow at AFRC in Cambridge, UK
1998-2006: Member of the interdepartmental center of Bioacoustics, University of Ferrara
2008-present: Member of the Laboratory for Technologies of Advanced Therapies (LTTA)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
1992-present: Member of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology

TEACHING EXPERIENCES
1991-present: Human Anatomy Lecturer in several Medicine Faculty Courses at the University of Ferrara, including Medicine, Rehabilitation Therapists, Radiologists, Nurses.
1996-present: Supervisor for PhD students in several PhD Programs at the University of Ferrara

GRANTS
2001: three year RTD programme “Quality of life and management of living resources”, three year European Project QLRT -2001-01563, "BIOEAR"
2002: three year grant Italian COFIN 2002 (B unit)
2008-present: local fundings

GRANTS REVISION
Project evaluator for Italian agencies (MIUR)

MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
The miRNA signatures for invasiveness and prognosis in breast cancer

Interaction between p53 and PARP during UV-induced cell death
Cisplatin  and aminoglycosides mechanism of action in in vitro and in vivo models of inner ear toxicity. In particular organotypic cultures of organs of Corti were used to assess the protective effect of the broad-spectrum tetracycline antibiotic Minocycline and of the Calpain and cathepsin B inhibitor MDL 28170 against hair cell death.

Role of nuclear phosphoinositidases in cancer signalling. In particular the research activity contributed to clarify the presence and activity of second messenger pathways based on phosphoinositide hydrolysis localized at nuclear level. Theresearch implied the setting up of HPLC based diacylglycerol assays in the low picomolar range and nuclear diacylglycerol kinase isolation andcharacterization.

PUBLICATIONS (at February 2021)
40 papers in peer-reviewed  journals (h-index: 17; Citations >1100, from Scopus)