Andrea Ballabio | |
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| Born | January 27, 1957 |
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| Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2016)[1] |
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Andrea Ballabio (born in Naples, Italy, January 27, 1957) is an Italian scientist and academic professor. He is founder-director of the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Naples, Italy; professor of medical genetics at the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy and visiting professor of genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, U.S. and at the University of Oxford, UK. He is also the former director of the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Milan, Italy.[2] He is the recipient of 2016 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for his contribution to understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling the function of lysosomes in health and disease.[3]