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MARIGO Valeria

Full Professor
Department of Life Sciences
Course Catalogue:
https://unimore.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/docente/...

Gruppo 05/BIOS-08 - BIOLOGIA MOLECOLARE

Settore BIOS-08/A - Biologia molecolare
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MARIGO_Valeria_en_8844.pdf

Curriculum Vitae

CURRENT POSITION
Full Professor of Molecular Biology

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1987 University of Padua - Master in Biology (SUMMA cum laude)
1993 - University of Rome “La Sapienza” and University of Padua – PhD in Morphogenetic and Cytological Sciences
2005 - Qualification as Associate Professor of Molecular Biology (SSD BIO/11, 05/E2).
2014 - National Qualification as Full Professor of Molecular Biology
2014 - National Qualification as Full Professor of Histology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN ITALY
1986-1987 Master Student at the Institute of Human Anatomy, University of Padua. Master thesis entitled: “Preparation of monoclonal antibodies against human fibroblasts”. PI Prof. M. Bortolussi
1987-1988 Research fellow at the Institute of Histology, University of Padua. PI: Prof. D. Volpin and Prof. G. M. Bressan
1988 Research fellow at the Department of Experimental Oncology, Oncology Centre of Aviano (PN) Director Prof. A. Colombatti
1988-1993 PhD student at the Institute of Histology, University of Padua. PI: Prof. D. Volpin and Prof. G. M. Bressan. Doctorate thesis: “Transcriptional regulation of tropoelastin and mechanism underlying elastic fibre formation”.
1996-2000 Principal Investigator at Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) in Milan
2000-2005 Principal Investigator at Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) in Naples
2000-2005 Head of the Service Unit “RNA In Situ Hybridization Core” at Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) in Naples
2005-2020 Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2020-current Full Professor of Molecular Biology at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ABROAD
1993-1996 Post-doctoral associate at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). PI Prof. C. J. Tabin
1998 Research fellow at the Institute of Genetics of GSF (Neuherberg, Germany.) PI Prof. J. Graw
2003 Research fellow at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto (Canada). PI Prof. D. van der Kooy

FELLOWSHIPS
November 1988-October 1992 National Fellowship for PhD studies
November 1992 – March 1993 Research fellowship by FIDIA Pharmaceutics.
March 1993 - August 1994 Fellowship for Research Abroad from University of Padua at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA)
July – September 1998 Fellowship by Deuscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) at GSF (Neuherberg, Munich, Germany)
March 2003 EMBO Short Term Fellowship at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)

HONORS
1988: Award by Centro Regionale Specializzato per la Epidemiologia e la Prevenzione dell’Arteriosclerosi (University of Padua)
2009: European Vision Award 2009

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES AND MENTORING
2009-2015: Representative for the English Language at the “Centro Linguistico di Ateneo”
2013-2015: Member of the Quality Committee for the Bachelor program in Biotechnology
2014-2017: Member of the Quality Committee for the Department of Life Science, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
2017-current: Coordinator of the Bachelor School in Biotechnology
2019-2023 member of the steering committee of Fondazione di Modena
Maggio 2023-oggi member of the CDA of Fondazione di Modena
Valeria Marigo regularly teaches Molecular Biology and she trained and tutored 15 bachelor students, 14 master students e 8 PhD students.
Some of Prof. Marigo’s trainees now occupy independent positions in academia and industry: Enrico M. Surace (Associate Professor of Medical Genetics, University Federico II, Naples); Francesca Giordano (Group Lead at Institut de Biologie Integrative de la Cellule (I2BC), Paris); Francesco Vetrini (Assistant Professor of Medical & Molecular Genetics at Indiana University, USA); Alberto Zullo (Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Sannio); Anna de Marzo (Project Manager at Syneos Health); Claudia Aruta (Clinical Operations Manager at Labcorp Drug Development); Maria Teresa Di Salvo (R&D at Medica S.p.A.).

GRANTS AS PI
-Fondazione Telethon T02-2000 “A Mouse Model for Ocular Albinism Type 1 (OA1) as a Tool for the Study of Hypopigmentation Defects” (2000-2003)
-Fondazione Telethon T03-2000 “Study of the Pathogenesis of Retinitis Pigmentosa Using An Inducible Animal Model” (2000-2003)
-Vision of Children Foundation, “Study of Ocular Albinism type 1” (2001–2004)
-March of Dimes #1-FY01-117 “A Mouse Model for Ocular Albinism Type 1 (OA1) as a Tool for the Study of Hypopigmentation Defects” (2001-2004)
-Fondazione Telethon T01-2003 “Unraveling the mechanism of retinal degeneration and photoreceptor survival” (2003-2006)
-Fondazione Telethon GGP06096 “Apoptotic mechanisms in retinal degeneration to be exploited as therapeutic targets to restrain photoreceptor cell death” (2006-2009)
-Progetti di ricerca a carattere internazionale-Progetti finanziati dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena. “Medicina rigenerativa della retina in degenerazione mediante trapianto di cellule staminali retiniche” (2008-2010)
-COFIN PRIN 20094CZ3M2 “Caratterizzazione molecolare e funzionale dei fotorecettori in degenerazione: identificazione di nuove pathways che possano essere bersaglio di farmaci al fine di aumentare la sopravvivenza dei bastoncelli in un modello murino di degenerazione retinica.” (2011-2013)
-Fondazione Telethon GGP14180 “Exploring PEDF as therapeutic agent for retinitis pigmentosa” (2014-2017)
-Fondazione Roma “Genomic and pharmacological therapeutic approaches to target dominant mutations in Rhodopsin” (2015-2018)
-Fondazione Telethon GGP19113 “Pigment Epithelium-derived Factor (PEDF) peptides as therapeutic agents for inherited retinal degeneration” (2019-2022)
- European Joint Programme Rare Disease (EJP RD) Call for Proposals 2020 “Translating cGMP analogues into a treatment for retinitis pigmentosa” (JTC2020 TreatRP) (2021-2024)

GRANTS AS CO-PI
-NIH 1R01EY015136-01 “OA1: from molecular bases to gene delivery” (2003-2008)
-FP6 MRTN-CT-2003-504003: European Retinal Research Training Network “RET-NET” (2004-2007)
-FP6 IP, “EVI-GENORET” LSHG-CT-2005-512036 “Functional genomics of the retina in health and disease” (2005-2008)
-FIRB- Progetti di cooperazione scientifica e tecnologica - Accordo Italia-USA, RBIN042ARX “Study of the regulatory pathways involved in the expression and in mediating the signaling of Sonic hedgehog in the neural tissue.” (2006-2009)
-COFIN PRIN 2006053302_003 “Sviluppo di colture arricchite e geneticamente modificate di fotorecettori derivati da cellule staminali retiniche adulte.” (2007-2008)
-E-RARE 2009 "European research projects on rare diseases" “Comprehensive analysis of rod-cone photoreceptor degeneration associated with rhodopsin mutations-RHORCOD” (2010-2013)
-Fondazione Telethon GGP11210A “Integrated in silico, in vitro, and in vivo studies towards the design of molecules with therapeutic potential for Retinitis Pigmentosa” (2011-2014)
-FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2012, “DRUGSFORD” HEALTH-F2-2012-304963 “Preclinical development of drugs and drug delivery technology for the treatment of inherited photoreceptor degeneration” (2012-2016)
-The French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM Téléthon) “Development of a new tool for gene therapy approach for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa” (2013-2015)
-Programma di ricerca Regione-Università 2010-2012 Area 1-Innovative Research, “Next-generation sequencing and gene therapy to diagnose and cure rare diseases in regione Emilia Romagna (RER)” (2013-2016)
-H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 “Educating the next generation of scientists in translational medicine: Focus on eye diseases” (TransMED) (2017-2021)

PATENTS
Inventor in 6 patents

REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS AND GRANT AGENCIES
Apoptosis, BMC Medical Genetics, Cell Death and Differentiation, Developmental Dynamics, Experimental Eye Research, FEBS Journal, Human Molecular Genetics, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular Therapy, Molecular Vision, Oncogene, Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research
AFM (France), ANR (France), CNRS-ATIP Programmes (France), DGF (German Research Foundation), European Research Council (ERC), Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale-FRM (France), Fondation Voir et Entendre (France), Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship (UK), Medical Research Council (MRC, UK), MIUR, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Swiss National Science Foundation (CH), Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO)

PARTICIPATION TO BOARDS
2001-2011 member of the Scientific Advisory Board of The Vision of Children Foundation (San Diego, CA, USA)
2014-current member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Retina Italia Onlus-Associazione Nazionale per la lotta alle distrofie retiniche
2019-current member of the Advisory Board of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
2007-2009 member of the Editorial Board of the journal Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research
2015-current member of the Editorial Board of the journal Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

CHAIRMAN/SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Scientific Committee and Organizer:
Vision of Children’s 5th Word Symposium, 5-7 October 2005 Capri, Italy.
Scientific Committee del 18th Meeting European Society for Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR2013), 2013 Lisbon, PT
Chairman:
“Transgenic models of inducible disease” International Congress of Eye Research. 2000 Santa Fe, USA
“Animal models of retinal disease I” Annual Meeting Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2001 Fort Lauderdale, USA
“Models, mechanisms and treatment strategies for retinal degeneration” EVI-GENORET Symposium 2007 a Paris, F
“Platform Session XI: Therapeutic Intervention II” XV International Symposium of retinal degeneration, 2012 Bad Gögging, D
“6th session: Eye Pigment Cells and Associated Diseases” 18th Meeting European Society for Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR2013), 2013 Lisbon, PT
VII Congresso della Società Italiana di Oftalmologia Gentica (SIOG), “Macular diseases: from diagnosis to experimental therapy” 2017 Naples, Italy

PUBLICATIONS
Author of 90 publications in International peer-reviewed journals.
Total citation number: 5506; Total Impact Factor: 541; h-index: 38 (Scopus); 44 (Google Scholar)
The complete list of publications is available at
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57204348851

Skills (5)


LS1_11 - Biochemistry and molecular mechanisms of signal transduction - (2016)

LS3_4 - Apoptosis - (2016)

LS5_4 - Sensory systems (e.g. visual system, auditory system) - (2016)

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Goal 4: Quality education

Research fields (3)

Molecular and genetic studies on Sonic Hedgehog signalling pathway
Molecular and genetic studies on retinal hereditary diseases
Molecular studies of elestic fibers
No Results Found

Other research activities

Transcriptome atlas at single cell level across the main phases of photoreceptor degeneration in Retinitis Pigmentosa 
PRIN Progetti di ricerca di rilevante interesse nazionale
Project
Scientific Manager
2023
24 months
No Results Found

Research Outputs (118)

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Patents (2)

Awards and honors (2)

European Top Women in Ophthalmology, conferred by European Vision Institute - 2021
European Vision Award, conferred by European Vision Institute - 2009
No Results Found

Fellowship (3)

fs2 – Socio/a effettivo o corrispondente - International Society for Eye Research - ISER (Stati Uniti) (2023 - ) 2023
fs2 – Socio/a effettivo o corrispondente - The New York Academy of Sciences (Stati Uniti) (2004 - 2005) 2004
fs2 – Socio/a effettivo o corrispondente - The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) (Stati Uniti) (1999 - ) 1999
No Results Found

Editorial Board (2)

Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES - ISSN: 1661-6596
Editor di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH - ISSN: 0893-5785
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Congresses (2)

Program committee (membro del comitato scientifico) - 18th Meeting European Society for Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR2013) (09/09/2013 - 12/09/2013) 20130909
Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - Vision of Children’s 5th World Symposium (05/10/2005 - 07/10/2005) 20051005
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Other titles (4)

Consigliere di Amministrazione Fondazione di Modena (28/04/2023 - ) 20230428
Componente del Comitato Scientifico di Retina Italia onlus (20/10/2014 - ) 20141020
Presidente del Corso di Studio in Biotecnologie (L2) (17/03/2017 - 31/10/2023) 20170317
Consigliere di Indirizzo Fondazione di Modena (20/12/2019 - 30/04/2023) 20191220
No Results Found

Third Mission (9)

Attività di coinvolgimento e interazione con il mondo della scuola (Partecipante) - Unimore Orienta
Department of Life Sciences
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, sede di Modena (Centro Servizi Policlinico) (22/02/2022 - ) 20220222
Organizzazione di iniziative di valorizzazione, consultazione e condivisione della ricerca (Organizzatore/Organizzatrice) - seminario per pazienti con distrofie retiniche
Department of Life Sciences
Milano (12/10/2019 - 12/10/2019) 20191012
Iniziative di tutela della salute (Organizzatore/Organizzatrice) - Convegno scientifico Retina Italia onlus
Department of Life Sciences
“Educatorio di Fuligno” – Firenze (18/05/2019 - 18/05/2019) 20190518
Pubblicazione e gestione di siti web e altri canali social di comunicazione e divulgazione scientifica (Relatore/Relatrice, Responsabile scientifico) - La diagnosi molecolare-una nuova via verso prospettive terapeutiche- comunicazione su youtube per l’associazione Retinite Pigmentosa Bologna ad HANDImatica
Department of Life Sciences
UNIMORE (26/01/2015 - 26/01/2015) 20150126
Partecipazioni attive a incontri pubblici organizzati da altri soggetti (Responsabile scientifico) - Convegno Retina Italia onlus - Piattaforma digitale
Department of Life Sciences
19000101
Iniziative di tutela della salute (Chairman) - Convegno Scientifico Retina Italia onlus
Department of Life Sciences
19000101
Partecipazioni attive a incontri pubblici organizzati da altri soggetti (Responsabile scientifico) - Incontro Retina Italia
Department of Life Sciences
19000101
Partecipazione dello staff docente a trasmissioni radiotelevisive a livello nazionale e internazionale (Altro) - Intervista sulla ricerca scientifica
Department of Life Sciences
19000101
Partecipazioni attive a incontri pubblici organizzati da altri soggetti (Altro) - “Approcci di neuroprotezione come trattamento per la Retinite Pigmentosa"
Department of Life Sciences
19000101
No Results Found

Current Module Offerings (2)

B-78 - Biologia molecolare e laboratorio

I Semestre (15/09/2025 - 17/12/2025) - 2025
Phasing-out degree programme
BIOTECHNOLOGY (D.M. 270/04) ( Department of Life Sciences )
Bachelor or equivalent first cycle
10 CFU
80 hours

BMF-19 - Meccanismi molecolari della segnalazione tra cellule

I Semestre I anno (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025) - 2025
Medical Biotechnologies ( Department of Life Sciences )
Master or equivalent second cycle
6 CFU
48 hours
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