Tullio Pozzan
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Tullio Pozzan FRSC (22 February 1949 – 15 October 2022) was an Italian biochemist who was professor at the University of Padua and head of the department of biomedical sciences of the Italian National Research Council.[2][3]
Early life
Pozzan was born in Venice on 22 February 1949.[4] He was born into a family associated with the medical profession, including a grandfather whom he was named after.[5] Pozzan studied Medicine at the University of Padua and received a doctor of medicine degree in 1973.[2][6]
Career and research
Pozzan was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge.[2] He became a full professor of general pathology at the University of Padua in 1986 and served as the director of the university's Department of Experimental Biomedical Sciences from 1992 to 2003.[5] From 2009 Pozzan was director of the National Research Council of Italy's Institute of Neuroscience.[5]
Pozzan's main scientific interest has been the study of
Awards and honours
Pozzan was member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO),[1] of the Accademia dei Lincei, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States[8] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2018.[2]
Retirement and death
Pozzan retired from academia in 2019. He died on the afternoon of 15 October 2022, following a brief illness during which he was nursed by his wife Carla.[5]
References
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