Fiche personnelle: Marco Giorgio

Marco Giorgio received a B.Sc. in Biology working on a HBV transgenic model at the University of Rome. He completed graduate training at the IRBM in Pomezia, studying the biochemistry of IL-6. Awarded an AIRC Fellowship, he studied genes fiunction by reverse genetics and generated cancer models at the Regina Elena Cancer Institute. After two years at MSKCC in New York City, he began to study the genetic relationship between cancer and aging. He received his doctorate in biotechnology, discussing a thesis on the discovery of the aging gene p66Shc, and joined IEO in Milan, where he continued to study the aging mechanisms associated with tumorigenesis in the Department of Experimental Oncology and is currently working to investigate metabolic adaptation of metastasis. Since 2018, he is associate professor of biochemistry at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padova, where he studies bioenergetics and genomics mechanisms of aging, especially the role of the interaction of environment and organism (https://www.biomed.unipd.it/ricerca/aree-tematiche/mitochondrial-pathophysiology/aging-signaling-pathways). Professor Giorgio's research has been published in over one hundred fifty international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics and molecular pathology (https://scholar.google.com/cites?user=qDBFcb0AAAAJ&hl=en).