institutions birth_place nationality fields article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
yale university brenta , lombardy italian cell biology pietro de camilli
 paul greengard pietro de camilli university of milan
pietro de camilli

pietro de camilli is an italian-american biologist and john klingenstein professor of neuroscience and cell biology at yale university school of medicine .
he is also an investigator at howard hughes medical institute .
de camilli completed his m.d. degree from the university of milan in italy in 1972 .
he then went to the united states and did his postdoctoral studies at yale university with paul greengard .
de camilli is known for contributions that has been to demonstrate the crucial role of protein-lipid interactions and phosphoinositide metabolism in the control of membrane traffic at the synapse .
he has received several awards and honors for his work .
he was elected to the european molecular biology organization in 1987 .
in 2001 , he was elected to the national academy of sciences and to the american academy of arts and sciences .
in 1990 he received the max-planck-forschungspreis together with reinhard jahn -lrb- at this time at the max planck institute of psychiatry -rrb- .
