Massimiliano Andreazzoli

PRESENT POSITION
Associate Professor, Department Biology, University of Pisa, IT

WORK EXPERIENCE
1995-2007: Assistant Professor, Department Biology, University of Pisa, IT
1998-2000: Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
1997: Visiting Scientist at University of Bath, UK

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1993-1995: Post-doctoral Research Associate, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, IT
1992: Ph.D. in "Evolutionary Biology and Differentiation", University of Pisa, IT
1988-1990: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
1987: MSc degree with honours, University of Pisa, IT

MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS
- Genetic and epigenetic control of gene expression in brain and retina of Xenopus and zebrafish.
- Role of chromatin remodelers in neurodevelopmental disorders and during brain aging process.
- Generating disease models for neural developmental disorders and aging in zebrafish to unravel the molecular bases underlying these processes.
-Establishing gene therapy and pharmacological approaches to rescue or ameliorate the phenotypes of the generated disease animal models.

SELECTED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
- 2001 Teacher in charge of the courses: "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Xenopus laevis, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China);
- 2001-2012: Member of the BIOS PhD School (University of Pisa)
- 2013-present: Member of the PhD School in Biology (University of Pisa)
- 2013- 2023: External member of the evaluation committee for the final PhD exam at the European School of Molecular Medicine (Naples; 2013), Open University (Naples; 2016), University of Milan (Molecular and Cellular Biology Program; 2014, 2018), SISSA (Trieste, 2023).
- 2017: President of the committee for the national habilitation as professional biologists at the University of Pisa
- 2017-present: Coordinator of the Master Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Pisa

OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Grant reviewer for “Israel Science Foundation” (Israel), “Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale” (France), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN and “Rita Levi Montalcini” program), Université Libre de Bruxelles, (Belgium).
- Ad-hoc reviewer for scientific journals: PNAS, Development, Developmental Biology, Developmental Dynamics, Brain Research, International Journal of Developmental Biology, PLoS One, Scientific Reports, Communications Biology, Autism Research, Molecular Autism
- 2015-2019 Member of the steering committee of the Italian society for Cellular and Developmental Biology (GEI – Società Italiana di Biologia dello Sviluppo e della Cellula, GEI-SIBSC)
-2015-present: Member of GEI-SIBSC
- 2019: President of the scientific committee for the 2nd Italian Zebrafish Meeting.
- 2021-2022: Member of the scientific committee for the 3rd Italian Zebrafish Meeting
- 2021: Member of the Group of Evaluation Experts (GEV) for area 05 (ANVUR) - Evaluation of Research Quality (VQR) 2015-2019

GRANTS
- 1998-2008: Member of Prof. Giuseppina Barsacchi’s Unit in the following grants: European Community FP4 BIOTECH (1998) and FP5-LIFE QUALITY (2002); Telethon (2004, 2007), Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2008), Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN; 1998, 2000, 2004)
- 2003-2005: PRIN Research grant from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) –
Principal Investigator (PI) of Unipi unit
- 2007-2009: PRIN Research grant from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) –
PI, National Coordinator
- 2015-2018: Telethon research grant - PI of Unipi unit
- 2016-2019: Roma Foundation research grant - PI of Unipi unit
- 2019-2023: PRIN Research grant from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) -
PI of Unipi unit
- 2022-2024: Telethon research grant - PI of Unipi unit