Fabio Coppedè

Fabio Coppedè graduated in Biological Sciences in 2000 at the University of Pisa and he obtained a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Genetics in 2005 at the same University. He was an Academic Visitor at the Dept. of Psychological Medicine in King's College London (UK) in 2000 and a Visiting Researcher at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley (USA) from 2002 to 2003. He was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Dept of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, (Sweden) from 2005 to 2006 and then Postdoctoral Researcher at Dept of Neuroscience, University of Pisa (Italy) from 2006 to 2010. In 2011, Fabio Coppedè was the recipient of a Research Grant from the Italian Ministry of Health and gained research independence as Principal Investigator of a project dealing with folate metabolism and epigenetics in Alzheimer's disease, at the Department of Laboratory Medicine of the Pisa University Hospital. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medical Genetics at the Dept of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery of the University of Pisa. His main research interests include i) investigating the contribution of genetic, environmental and epigenetic factors in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and other complex diseases and ii) addressing the maternal risk of having a child with Down syndrome related to folate metabolism. Prof. Coppedè is author of almost 80 peer reviewed articles (indexed in PubMed, Scopus and/or ISI web of knowledge databases), 15 book chapters, and several divulgative articles in Italian journals. According to Scopus (Author ID: 8972617800) he received over 2,250 citations, with an H-index of 28.