Maurizio Romano, PhD

BIOSKETCH

CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor, University of Trieste, Italy.

INSTITUTIONAL ADDRESS: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Via A. Valerio 28, 34127, Trieste, Italy.

EDUCATION/TRAINING: University of Trieste, Italy: BSc, Biology, 1990; PhD, Experimental Pathology, 1994.

BRIEF CAREER INFORMATION:

My scientific career started with studies on inflammation and characterization of pathogenic mechanisms in different diseases caused by splicing control defects. While studying splicing defects associated with human diseases, as part of a research project on Cystic Fibrosis, I contributed to the identification of the nuclear protein TDP-43 as a CFTR exon 9 pre-mRNA splicing regulator, in the early 2000s.

Since then, I have undertaken a detailed characterization of the functions of this multitasking factor and altogether these studies propelled my interest for neurodegenerative disease, after the initial implication of TDP-43 in the pathogenesis of FTLD and ALS, in 2006.