Paolo E. Porporato

2020-to date Associate Professor in Experimental Biology at the University of Turin, Torino, Italy 

2016-2019 Assistant Professor in Experimental Biology at the University of Turin, Torino, Italy. 

2015 Visiting professor in Biochemistry at the University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO), Novara, Italy 

2013-2016 post-doctoral research scientist (Chargé de recherche), Unit of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Research 

2018-2014 Post doctoral fellow at the Dept. of Molecular Biotechnologies and Health Sciences and Molecular Imaging Center (www.cim.unito.it) of the University of Torino

 M.Sc. in Medical Biotechnologies, University of Turin, 2004, with a focus on Iron Metabolism.

Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, 2009, specializing in Muscle Mass Homeostasis.

Postdoctoral training in Cancer Metabolism and Angiogenesis, University of Louvain Medical School, 2010

Eliezer Rachmilewitz Prize Recipient,at BioIron EMBL (2019) “Role of Iron metabolism in cancer cachexia”

Prix d’Alvarenga, de Piauhy (2015) “Role of mitochondrial superoxide targeting on tumor signaling and metastasis prevention”. Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine

Best scientific poster at the Biowin day 2012, Louvain LN, Belgium 28 Nov 2012.

Aegean Conference Trainee Award Tumor microenvironment and cellular stress conference, Chania Greece, 4-9 Oct, 2012

Selected reviewer for PNAS, Oncogene, Science Signalling, Science Advances, Oncogenesis, Oncotarget, American Journal of Physiology, Trends in Cancer, Journal of Translational Medicine, Frontiers in Oncology, IJMS, Cancer Res

Grant Reviewer: Health Research Council (NZ) 2021, Swiss National Science Foundation-SNSF (CH)2020, 

MRC-University of Cambridge 2020,2019; National Fellowship Committee for Graduate Women in Science 2019; Research Foundation Flanders – FWO 2018, Luxembourg National Research Fund