BELLUCCI ARIANNA

Arianna Bellucci - CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA NAME Arianna Bellucci TITLE Associate Professor SSD Bio14 / Pharmacology PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: Prato (PO), 6-09-1974. Italian nationality. INSTRUCTION 2000: University of Florence Degree in Biological Sciences 2005: University of Florence PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY 2000-2001 Research fellow at the University of Florence. 2002-2004 PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Florence and Cambridge Center for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, UK. 2005-2006: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Brescia. 2007-2008: Technician at the University of Brescia. April 2008-JANUARY 2018: Researcher at the University of Brescia. February 2018- to date: Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia. MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS: Study of the physiological and pathological role of alpha-synuclein in experimental models. Characterization of new therapeutic targets for Parkinson's disease. Characterization of the role of synapsin III in dopaminergic neurons. COLLABORATION Prof. Maria Grazia Spillantini, University of Cambridge, UK; Prof. Luigi Bubacco, University of Padua; Prof. Ermanno Valoti, University of Milan; Dr. Alessio Di Fonzo, IRRCS Ca Granda Policlinico of Milan; Prof. Fabio Benfenati, IIT, Genoa. OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES Member of the Italian Society of Pharmacology, Italian Society of Neurosciences, International Society for Neurochemistry. Member of the Editorial board of Neurobiology of Disease, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Biology. 2025-present: member of the Pan-Europe Regional Committee of the International Brain Research Organization; 2025-present: Member of the Parkinson's UK College of Experts.