Fabio Grassi

Fabio Grassi received the master’s degree in medicine from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in microbiology from the University of Milan, Milan, Italy, in 1985 and 1993, respectively. He was an Anna Villa Rusconi Fellow with the University of Umeä, Umeä, Sweden, in 1988, a Postdoctoral Fellow with Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, from 1989 to 1993, an Assistant Professor with San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy, from 1994 to 1998, a Marie Curie Fellow with Hôpital Necker, Paris, from 1998 to 2000, and a Special Fellow of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society with Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, from 2000 to 2002. Currently, he is a Full Professor of biology with the Medical School, University of Milan. In 2002, he joined the Institute for Research in Biomedicine Bellinzona, Switzerland, as the Head of the T cell development lab. His research interests include T cell physiology, including protein and membrane trafficking, signal transduction, control of cell growth and intercellular communications during T cell development, and immunopathological conditions.