Sergio Crovella

Sergio_Crovella

Sergio Crovella, PhD

Patologo Clinico e Genetista Molecolare Umano, con ampia esperienza in genetica umana e molecolare, immunogenetica, immunologia e biologia cellulare, biologia molecolare, evoluzione e modelli animali per la ricerca oncologica.

Formazione

  • Dottorato di Ricerca (PhD) in Antropologia Molecolare
    (Evoluzione molecolare dei primati non umani), Università di Firenze, Italia
  • Specializzazione (abilitazione professionale) in Genetica, Immunologia e Biologia Molecolare/Cellulare
    Consiglio di Biologia, CrBio5, Recife, Brasile
  • Laurea in Biologia, Università di Torino, Italia
  • Laurea in Scienze Naturali, Università di Pavia, Italia
  • Post-doc presso l’Università Louis Pasteur, Strasburgo, Francia

Esperienze professionali e accademiche

  • Research Manager presso Perkin Elmer – Applied Biosystems
    (Foster City, CA, USA; Milano, Italia)
  • Professore Associato di Genetica Umana e Medica, Università di Trieste, Italia
  • Professore Associato di Patologia Clinica, Università di Trieste, Italia
  • Professore Ordinario di Genetica, Dipartimento di Genetica,
    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasile
  • Responsabile Diagnostico del Laboratorio di Genetica Medica,
    Ospedale Pediatrico IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italia
  • Professore Ordinario di Biologia e Genetica,
    Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche e Ambientali, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
  • Research Professor, Laboratory Animal Research Center (LARC) e
    Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Qatar University
  • Senior Consultant presso l’Unità di Dermatologia,
    IRCCS Policlinico Cà Granda, Milano, Italia

Attualmente:
Professore Ordinario di Biologia Applicata
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Prevenzione
Università di Ferrara, Italia

Attività di ricerca

Pluriennale esperienza di ricerca internazionale in Francia, Stati Uniti, Malesia, Thailandia, Madagascar, Trinidad e Tobago, Slovenia, Argentina, Brasile e Qatar.

Aree principali:

  • Genetica molecolare umana
  • Malattie ereditarie mendeliane e complesse
  • Malattie autoinfiammatorie con focus dermatologico
  • Oncogenetica
  • Immunogenetica e tipizzazione HLA
  • Studi funzionali di validazione di dati NGS
  • Analisi OMICs e bioinformatica applicata

Gestione di risorse umane e coordinamento di gruppi di ricerca, inclusi team di bioinformatica per analisi OMICs.

Produzioni scientifiche

Finanziamenti e attività editoriali

  • Ottenuti oltre 50 grant internazionali come Principal Investigator (LPI) a supporto di attività di ricerca e diagnostica
  • Revisore per riviste scientifiche internazionali, tra cui:
    Genes and Immunity, Immunology Letters, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Human Immunology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biomolecules, Frontiers in Immunology

Attività didattica

29 anni di esperienza didattica in corsi universitari di:

  • Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare
  • Genetica Umana
  • Genetica Molecolare
  • Genetica Medica
  • Immunogenetica
  • Patologia Generale e Clinica

Affiliazioni scientifiche

  • Membro della Società Brasiliana di Genetica
  • Membro della Società Italiana di Patologia

Competenze linguistiche

  • Italiano (lingua madre)
  • Inglese, Francese, Spagnolo, Portoghese (fluente, parlato e scritto)
  • Nozioni di lingua malese



Sergio Crovella PhD,

Clinical Pathologist, Human Molecular Geneticist, experience in human and molecular genetics, immunogenetic, immunology/cell biology, molecular biology, evolution, animal models for cancer research,

PhD in molecular anthropology (molecular evolution of non-human primates), University of Florence (Italy); Specialization (professional residence) in Genetics, Immunology and Molecular/Cell biology, Counsel of Biology, CrBio5, Recife, Brazil; Graduated in Biology and Natural Sciences in Italy (Torino and Pavia Universities respectively); Post doc at the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

Research manager at Perkin Elmer Applied Biosystems (Foster City, CA, US) and Milano (Italy).

Former assistant professor of Human and Medical Genetics at the University of Trieste (Italy), former associate professor of Clinical Pathology at the same institution.

Former full professor of Genetics at the Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil).

Former Diagnostic manager at the Medical Genetics laboratory of the Children Hospital Burlo Garofolo, Trieste (Italy); broad experience in Mendelian and complex diseases genetic diagnosis, HLA typing for diagnosis of HLA-related diseases.

Former Full Professor of Biology and Genetics at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at The Qatar University, Doha, State of Qatar. 

Former Research Professor at the Laboratory of Animal Research Center (LARC), and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Qatar University. 

Senior consultant at the Dermatology Unit of the IRCCS Cà Granda Polyclinic hospital (Milano, Italy)

Currently Full Professor of Applied Biology at the Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy).

Several years of research experience abroad (France, USA, Malaysia, Thailand, Madagascar, Trinidad and Tobago, Slovenia, Argentina, Brazil, Qatar.

Listed in the Top Italian Scientists 

https://topitalianscientists.org/tis/45456/Sergio_Crovella_-_Top_Italian_Scientist_in_Biomedical_Sciences

549 articles on peer reviewed international journals 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Crovella+S&sort=date

h index= 46; Citations 10,752 (Scopus) 

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005713079

h index= 59; Citations 15214 (Google Scholar)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ttzw93YAAAAJ

Total impact factor > 1200

Broad experience as speaker at conferences, congresses seminars, workshops, symposium etc.

Obtained more than 50 international grants as LPI supporting the research and diagnostic activities.

Reviewer of international scientific journals (Genes and Immunity, Immunology Letters, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Human Immunology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biomolecules, Frontiers in Immunology)

Member of the Brazilian Society of Genetics and the Italian Society of Pathology.

Teaching activity: 29 years of experience: courses of Cell Molecular Biology, Human Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Medical Genetics, Immunogenetics General and Clinical Pathology.

Human resources managing experience in human molecular genetics applied to hereditary complex diseases, auto-inflammatory diseases with focus on skin, and cancer. Wide experience in supervision of functional studies to confirm and expand NGS findings, already handled a bio-informatics research team at Recife (Brazil) for OMICs analyses.

Speak and write fluently Italian (mother tongue), English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, notions of Malay.