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Diego Centonze

Professore Ordinario di Neurologia presso l’Università di Roma Tor Vergata;
Direttore dell’Unità di Neurologia dell’IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli

Quick facts

Date of birth

1970-02-24

Nationality

Italian

City

Rome

University

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Profession

Neurologist

Professional association

Rome

Curriculum vitae

General Information

Family name: Centonze Given name: Diego

Place and date of birth: Carmiano (Lecce), February 24, 1970

Address for correspondence: Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata Via Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome, Italy

Tel. +39-06-7259-6010; Fax: +39-06-7259-6006

Email: centonzeTemplate:@uniroma2.it

Academic Titles and Appointments

2012: PhD in Advanced Technologies in Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

2006: Specialization in Psychiatry, cum laude, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

1999: Specialization in Neurology, cum laude, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

1994: MD degree in Medicine and Surgery, cum laude, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Current Academic Position

Since 2015: Full Professor of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Clinical activity: Director of the Neurology Unit and of the Neurorehabilitation Unit at IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy.

Principal Investigator of numerous national and international Phase II, III, and IV clinical trials involving novel therapeutic agents for Multiple Sclerosis.

Previous Positions

2012–2015: Associate Professor of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

2001–2012: Assistant Professor (Researcher) of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

2005–2015: Head of the Neuroimmunology and Synaptic Plasticity Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation / CERC, Rome.

2004–2015: Head of the Clinical and Research Center for Multiple Sclerosis (UOSD), Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome.

2004–2015: Head of the Experimental Neurology Laboratory, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

2004–2015: Head of the Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Laboratory, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome.

1999–2001: Post-doctoral Fellow at the Neurophysiology Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome.

1998–1999: Research Fellow at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Research Activities

2008–present: Synaptic correlates of psychiatric disorders (addiction, anxiety, depression).

2004–present: Physiology of the endocannabinoid system and its involvement in inflammatory neurodegenerative diseases (experimental models of HD, PD, and MS).

2003–present: Electrophysiological characterization of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in experimental models of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

1999–2003: Receptor and post-receptor mechanisms involved in the modulation of corticostriatal transmission and synaptic plasticity (long-term potentiation, long-term depression, synaptic depotentiation).

1998–1999: Electrophysiology of dopamine in subthalamic nucleus neurons.

1996–present: Electrophysiological characterization of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in experimental models of Parkinson’s disease (PD), Huntington’s disease (HD), and cerebral ischemia.

1994–1995: Physiological and pharmacological characterization of corticostriatal synaptic plasticity in vitro using multiple experimental approaches, including extracellular and intracellular electrophysiological recordings and morphological characterization of recorded neurons.

International Scientific Publications

Author of approximately 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles published in international journals of Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry.

H-index: 59 (Scopus Author ID: 7005136325) ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8390-8545

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Memberships

• Member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Italian Neurological Society (SIN), and the Italian Neuroscience Society (SINS).
• Consultant member of Advisory Boards of pharmaceutical companies for novel treatments of Multiple Sclerosis.
• Invited reviewer for international journals in Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry.

Honors

In October 2005, the international journal Science published an interview with Prof. Diego Centonze and included him among the “Six stellar neuroscientists based in North America and Europe”.