Giorgio Scita obtained his Ph.D. in Food Chemistry and Technology at the University of Parma, Italy, in the Department of Biochemistry. He did his postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley and at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1995, he returned to Italy, to the European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan. In 2001, he became Principal Investigator at the IFOM Foundation, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan. In 2006, he was appointed associate professor of General Pathology at the School of Medicine of the University of Milan. His primary research interest has been on dissecting basic mechanisms of cell migration and invasion focusing on signaling leading to spatial and temporal regulation of actin dynamics: the powerhouse for cell motility. More recently, he has been investigating the impact of endocytic networks on the biomechanics of collective cell migration, tumor plasticity and dissemination, focusing specifically on the tissue-level solid-to-liquid-like transition underlying human breast ductal adenocarcinomas progression.

Scientific productivity: He has authored more than 145 publications, which include more than 120 original articles and 12 invited reviews in refereed journals. The average impact factor of these publications is slightly above 10. Notably, the average impact factor of the 55 publications of the last 10 years is above 10 and, of these, 23 publications (42%) have appeared in journals with an impact factor >10. (e.g., Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Immunity, Developmental Cell).

H factor: Currently, Scita has an overall Hirsch “h” factor of 63 (google Schoolar), 53 (Scopus).

He is ERC awardee (ADVANCED-2011; SYNERGY-2022) and EMBO member since 2014

Giorgio Scita, PhD
IFOM | Principal Investigator | Mechanisms of tumor cell migration Lab
Professor of General Pathology, Department of Oncology and Haemato-Oncology, University of Milan
Ph.: +39 02 57430 3277 | giorgio.scita@ifom.eu
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