- Pietro De Camilli
Pietro De Camilli is an Italian-American biologist and Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology at
Yale University School of Medicine. He is also an Investigator atHoward Hughes Medical Institute .De Camilli completed his M.D. degree from the
University of Milan in Italy. He then went to theUnited States and did his postdoctoral studies atYale University .De Camilli is known for contributions that has been to demonstrate the crucial role of protein-lipid interactions and phosphoinositide metabolism in the control of membrane traffic at the synapse.
He has received several awards and honors for his work. He was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 1987. In 2001, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1990 he received the
Max-Planck-Forschungspreis together with Reinhard Jahn (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry ).References
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* [http://www.cellbiology.yale.edu/cellbio/html/faculty/p_camilli.shtml Personal webpage of Pietro De Camilli]
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