Luisa Minghetti
- Director of the Research Coordination and Promotion Unit, Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Neurobiologist, after her doctorate in Cell biology and physiology at the University of Bologna and a post-doc at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in London, she started her research activity in 1992 at Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), where she still works. From 1998 to 2004, she directed the Neurobiology Unit and from 2008 to 2016 the Experimental Neurology Unit. Her research activity has been aimed at the role of neuroinflammation in the processes of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection, the identification of prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers, the modulation of neuroinflammatory processes by diet and environmental contaminants. Author of over 140 scientific publications (Scopus ID: 7004899724), and she has been invited speaker at numerous national and international congresses. As the Director of the Research Coordination and Promotion Unit and the President’s Delegate for Research, she mainly deals with strategy, analysis, coordination and promotion of research at ISS and she represents ISS in various institutional settings, including inter-ministerial committees and the Council of the Presidents of Public Research Institutions (CoPER). She also deals with the strategy and promotion of biomedical and health research, at a national and international level, through the activities of the national nodes of the European research infrastructures (ERIC) in the biomedical field – EATRIS (translational medicine); ECRIN (clinical trials); BBMRI (biobanking research) – which ISS represents at European level on a joint mandate from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of University and Research.