Alessandro Ieraci
University of Milano, Italy
Biography
Alessandro Ieraci has completed his PhD at University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy) and the post-doctoral training at the WMC of Cornell University, New York (USA). In 2007, he joined the Newron Pharmaceuticals with the goal of setting up animal models to study the efficacy of potential antipsychotic, antidepressant and cognitive enhancer drugs. Since 2011 is Research Associate at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan (Italy), investigating the role of epigenetic mechanisms in the transcriptional modulation of neurotrophic factors, in response to environmental and pharmacological treatments. He has published more than 24 papers in reputed journal.