Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil
(CV in PDF format)
EDUCATION:
- M.D. summa cum laude, UCSC, Rome, Italy, Rome, Italy
- Ph.D. Cell Biology, SUNY-HSCB, Brooklyn, NY
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING:
- 1994-1997 Post-doctoral Fellow, Cornell University Medical College
- 1988-1989 Research Fellow, Institute for Basic Research Staten Island, NY
- 1986-1988 Resident in Neurology, UCSC, Rome, Italy
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
- 2001 - present Member , Cancer Institute of New Jersey
- 2006 - present Associate Professor
- 1999 - 2006 Assistant Professor, Dept. Neuroscience & Cell Biology UMDNJ,
- 1998 - 1999 Research Associate, Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center
Membership Professional Societies:
- Italian Medical Association
- New York Academy of Science
- Society for Neuroscience
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- MRSF
Fellows and Honors:
- 2007 Master Educator Guild for Graduate Education
- 2006 Graduate Student Association of GSBG Excellence in Teaching Award
- 2006 Keynote Speaker Medical and Graduate Student Retreat University of Ohio
- 2005 Keynote Speaker American Medical Women Association
- 2005 Nominee Excellence in Teaching Award for 1st yr Medical and Graduate Students
- 2005 Recognition Award Rutgers Women In Neuroscience
- 2003 Chair. Session on Demyelination&Remyelination at the 6th Kroc Symposium (Sep.14-16, 2003) West Hartford, CT.
- 2002 Speaker, GORDON Research Conference on Myelin. Oakland, CA(February 2-5, 2002).
- 2002 Junior Investigator Award Cancer Institute of New Jersey
- 2001 NJ Cancer Research Award for Scientific Excellence sponsored by the NJ Commission on Cancer Research
- 2001 Chair, ISN Satellite Symposium Myelin Disorders Colonia, Uruguay (September 1-5 2001).
- 2001 ISN/ASN Travel Award
- 1999 Dale McFarlin, Travel Award
- 1999 International Society for Neurochemistry, Travel Award
- 1998 Third European Meeting on Glial Biology Travel Award sponsored by T. Theohari Cozzika Foundation
- 1996 Burroughs Wellcome finalist
- 1994 American Epilepsy Society Research Award sponsored by Milken Family Medical Foundation and Abbott Laboratories
- 1989 Tattoni's Award for the best medical student in the years 1986-1989.
- 1986 Medical Degree cum Laude (2001)