Pietro De Camilli
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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 at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
De Camilli completed his M.D. degree from the University of Milan in Italy. He then went to the United States and did his postdoctoral studies at Yale 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.
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- Biography of Pietro De Camilli. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
- Pietro De Camilli, M.D.. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
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