Journal of Biomolecular Research & Therapeutics

SEBASTIANO CAVALLARO -

Biography

Dr. Sebastiano Cavallaro received a medical degree at the University of Catania (Italy) and then completed a residency in Neurology in the same university and a Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology at Georgetown University (Washington, DC, USA). He worked as a Visiting Associate and Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA), in the Laboratory for Adaptive Systems of the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at the Johns Hopkins University (Rockville, MD, USA). Since 1997, Dr. Cavallaro works at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and today directs the Institute of Neurological Sciences, a research center where clinical services and research activities thrive together. His primary research interests include genomics and neurobiology.

Research Interest

The research fields of the Institute are: Clinical physiopathology and therapy of nervous systems diseases with particular attention to hereditary neurological diseases; Clinical, neurophisiological, and neuropatological diagnosis of nervous system diseases; Diagnostics by images and nuclear medicine applied to the diagnosis and the study of the nervous system diseases; Genetics, biochemistry, genomics and pharmacology applied to the diagnosis and the study of nervous system diseases. Development of biotechnologies to study of nervous system diseases.