ISSN: 2643-5985
Senior Scientist
Laboratory of Experimental Respiratory Medicine
Catania University
Italy
Tel: 347-0643253
Dr. Conte Enrico in 1993 started his Ph.D. courses of Biochemical and Bio-molecular Sciences, and pertinent research activity at the Molecular Biology Laboratory at the Institute of General Pathology, Catania University, Italy. Topics of his researches were the mechanisms of NFkB activation and the role of NFKBin the transcriptional regulation of a variety of genes including the antioncogene IRF-1, and cytokines such as IL-8 and TNF in monocytes/macrophages. In 1994 he spent a semester at the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, and Eugene, USA, supported by a grant from the Italian National Researh Council (CNR). In the Lab directed by D.H. Hawley, he was studying the interaction between NFKBand basal transcription machinery. In 1996 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Rome 'La Sapienza' University, Italy. From 1996 to 2008 he worked at the Department of Biomedical Sciences (formerly Institute of General Pathology), first granted by the Buzzati-Traverso Foundation, afterward as fellow researcher, and eventually as volunteer. He participated in several in vitro and ex vivo studies in the field of immunology and oncology. Main topics of his researches were apoptotis-related gene expression in myeloid leukemia cells and drug-induced gene expression pathways. In 1997 he spent a semester in Frankfurt, Germany, as fellow researcher at the University Clinic (Uniklinikum) of the W. Goethe University; he was investigating the inhibition of NFKB activation by natural compounds. In 1997-1999 he was also collaborating with a interdisciplinary group directed by Prof. G. Marletta to study molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion to ion-beam irradiated polymeric surfaces.
