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Pietro De Camilli is the John Klingenstein Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, with dual appointments in both departments. He is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and has held leadership roles including Chair of the Department of Cell Biology (1997–2000), Chair of the Department of Neuroscience (2015–2021), and Director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience (2015–2022). His research focuses on synaptic vesicle dynamics, membrane trafficking, and lipid metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Parkinson's disease. He has pioneered studies on phosphoinositide signaling and membrane contact sites.
Education: M.D. from University of Milan (1972), postgraduate training in medical endocrinology at University of Pavia, and postdoctoral work with Paul Greengard at Yale.
Research Interests: Cell biology of synapses, synaptic vesicle exo/endocytosis, phospholipid signaling, membrane curvature generation, and lipid homeostasis. Recent work emphasizes the role of VPS13 proteins in ER-lysosome contacts and Parkinson’s disease mechanisms.
Awards & Honors: van Deenen Medal (2023), E.B.Wilson Medal (2021), Ernst Jung Gold Medal (2019), Julius Axelrod Prize (2015), and Foreign Membership in the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2013).
Labs & Teams: Directs the De Camilli Lab at Yale, which collaborates with researchers like Shawn Ferguson, Yumei Wu, and Berrak Ugur. Active in the Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR), founded in 2005.
