ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

e-mail: Malisan@med.uniroma2.it
Telefono: +39 06 7259 6501
SSD: MED/46- SCIENZE TECNICHE DI MEDICINA E DI LABORATORIO
SC: 06/N1 - SCIENZE DELLE PROFESSIONI SANITARIE E DELLE TECNOLOGIE MEDICHE APPLICATE 

Prof. Florence Michèle​  Malisan

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CURRICULUM VITAE
Florence MALISAN graduated in 1992 in Biological Sciences at the University Claude Bernard of Lyon, France and completed her Ph.D in Immunology with highest Honour in 1996 at the Schering-Plough Laboratory for Immunological Research, France. She joined the Laboratory of Signal Transduction (http://www.labst.org)  directed by Prof. Roberto Testi at the University of Tor Vergata in 1996. She published >34 peer-reviewed papers for the equivalent of 215 in Impact Factor (ORCID ID 0000-0002-0213-9407):

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=malisan%20f
• https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=sqR3aJ4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&is_public_preview=1
• https://it.linkedin.com/pub/florence-malisan/b/6b2/532

Selected papers

• A. Schiavi, A. Torgovnick, A. Kell, E. Megalou, N. Castelein, I. Guccini, L. Marzocchella, S. Gelino, M. Hansen, F. Malisan, I. Condo', R. Bei, S. Rea, B.P. Braeckman, N. Tavernarakis, R. Testi, and N. Ventura. Autophagy induction extends lifespan and reduces lipids content in response to frataxin silencing in C. elegans. Exp Gerontol. 48(2): 191-201. 2013.
• B. Tomassini, G. Arcuri, S. Fortuni, C. Sandi, V. Ezzatizadeh, C. Casali, I. Condò, F. Malisan, S. Al-Mahdawi, M. Pook, and R. Testi. Interferon gamma upregulates frataxin and corrects the functional deficits in a Friedreich ataxia model. Hum Mol Genet. 21(13): 2855-61. 2012.
• I. Guccini, D. Serio, I. Condò, A. Rufini, B. Tomassini, A. Mangiola, G. Maira, C. Anile, D. Fina, F. Pallone, M.P. Mongiardi, A. Levi, N. Ventura, R. Testi, and F. Malisan. Frataxin participates to the hypoxia-induced response in tumors. Cell Death Dis. 2011 Feb 24;2(1):e123.
• A. Rufini, S. Fortuni, G. Arcuri, I. Condo', D. Serio, O. Incani, F. Malisan, N. Ventura, and R. Testi. Preventing the ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent degradation of frataxin, the protein defective in Friedreich's Ataxia. Hum Mol Genet. 20 (7): 1253-61. 2011.
• I. Condò, F. Malisan, I. Guccini, D. Serio, A. Rufini, and R. Testi. Molecular control of the cytosolic aconitase/IRP1 switch by extramitochondrial frataxin. Hum Mol Genet. 19 (7): 1221-9. 2010.