Lilia Alberghina

Lilia Alberghina is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy. In this University she has been a member of the Board of Regents, a member of the Administrative Board, and Chairperson of the teaching program in Industrial Biotechnology. She is a Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, USA, where she moved as a Research Associate after receiving a PhD in Biology. Back in Italy, she started a line of research on the biochemistry of cell growth and division that in recent years has focused on signal transduction and cell cycle control.

Lilia Alberghina ha aperto nuove prospettive nella ricerca italiana sulla biologia dei sistemi del ciclo cellulare, fornendo una nuova comprensione sui meccanismi molecolari che controllano l'ingresso nella fase S.

She has published about 300 papers in scientific international journals. Lilia Alberghina has also published books, including "Biotecnologie e Bioindustria" (L. Alberghina, E. Cernia, UTET, 1996). She is the Editor of the book "Protein Engineering in Industrial Biotechnology" (Harwood Academic publisher, 2000) and co-editor of the book: "Systems Biology: Definitions and Perspectives" (Springer Verlag 2005). Currently she is:

• President of the scientific Association “Systems Biology and ICT for Health”.
• Scientific director of the Lab. of Neurosciences “Rita Levi-Montalcini” at CEBIB-Bicocca
• Scientific expert appointed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research for the evaluation of FAR and PRIN projects.
• Member of the Committee for "Finance and Innovation" created by Finlombarda.
• Member of the Steering Committee "Forward look on Systems Biology" of the European Science Foundation.
• Founder member of the Yeast Systems Biology Network
• Member of the Scientific Committee for the International Meeting IBS 2010