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Mario Salmona
Head, Department of Molecular Biochemistry and Pharmacology
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Dr. Mario Salmona obtained his doctorate degree in biochemistry and food technology from the
University of Milan in 1971. Except for a post-doctoral period in 1975 in the Department of Biology
of the Weizmann Institute of Science under the mentorship of Professor Meir Shnitzky,
Dr. Salmona spent all his carrier at the Mario Negri Institute, first as an associate
researcher and subsequently as the Head of the Laboratory of Enzyme Research. Since 1997 Dr.
Salmona is the Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology.
Besides his research position, he has held the position of Dean of the School of Advanced
Pharmacology.
Since 2003 Dr Mario Salmona is a member of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, he is a an EU technical consultant for prion diseases and has been a member of numerous
national and international scientific reviewing panels.
Dr. Salmona's background is in biochemistry, biophysics and pharmacology. His scientific
interests relate to problems of human and animal diseases originating from the aberrant folding of
proteins. In this context, a major portion of his studies was devoted to the etiopathogenesis and
therapy of prion diseases.
He has published over 260 articles on peer reviewed scientific journals.
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