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Stefano Gustincich
Senior Researcher Tenured - Principal Investigator
Senior Researcher Tenured - Principal InvestigatorNon-coding RNAs and RNA-based therapeutics
Phone
+39 010 2897 620
Address
Via Melen 83 B, 16152 Genova Italy
Research center
CHT@Erzelli
About
Stefano Gustincich is Director of the “Central RNA Lab" of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, Italy and Director of “Centro per la Medicina Personalizzata Preventiva e Predittiva – CMP3VdA” in Aosta (IIT), Italy.
He was Full Professor in Applied Biology at the International School of Advanced Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy (2015-2022).
After obtaining a PhD in Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology from SISSA, he was awarded a "long-term EMBO fellowship" at the Department of Neurobiology of Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA) where in 1998 he became "Instructor in Neurobiology".
In 2003 he won the "career development award" of the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation and in 2011 the National Award for Innovation in Biotechnology.
His lab studies the role of non-coding DNA in brain function and neurodegenerative diseases. He recently discovered the SINEUPs, a new functional class of antisense long noncoding RNAs able to increase translation of their sense gene.
Since the beginning of his scientific career, he published 164 peer-reviewed research articles and reviews with an average IF of 10.6, a h Index of 56 and more than 22.000 citations. He is the inventor in 12 patents.
He is the co-founder of TranSINE Therapeutics, an IIT start-up based in Cambridge, UK.
He is the leader of Spoke 3 "Neurodegenerative diseases" of the "National Center 3 in Gene Therapy and Drugs Based On RNA Technology”
Dissemination
2021
Gustincich S.
Capire le cellule, la sfida della genomica.
Festival della Scienza Roma
Public Event
2021
Burioni R., Gustincich S.
La rivoluzione dell'RNA
Corriere della sera “Il tempo della Salute”.
Public Event
2021
Gustincich S.
The 5000 genomes vda project
The European House Ambrosetti
Outreach
2020
Gustincich S.
Il futuro dell'identità biologica tra salute, informazione e sicurezza
Festival della Scienza, Genova
Public Event
Colleagues of Non-coding RNAs and RNA-based therapeutics
