Elena Cattaneo is an internationally prominent Huntington's disease researcher and stem cell research advocate.
12 Facts About Elena Cattaneo
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Elena Cattaneo is internationally recognised for her major commitment to research ethics and research policy, and for increasing knowledge and engagement in research among the general public.
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Elena Cattaneo studied neural stem cell differentiation in the area of the human brain associated with degenerative diseases under Professor Ronald McKay.
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Elena Cattaneo is full professor at the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Pharmacology of Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Department of Biosciences of University of Milan.
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Elena Cattaneo has used her position to oppose unfounded claims made by companies offering stem cell remedies.
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Elena Cattaneo has been awarded the Medaglia teresiana by the University of Pavia, in 2013.
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In 2016, Elena Cattaneo helped raising concerns about three anti-GMO papers by Federico Infascelli at the University of Naples, which were later retracted from Nature.
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Nature News reported that Elena Cattaneo found that certain images in those papers had been deleted or tampered with, and that some images in different studies were identical, despite captions claiming that they were the results of novel experiments.
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Elena Cattaneo's suspicions led to an investigation by the University of Naples, which found evidence of data manipulation.
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The event was brought about after Elena Cattaneo wrote to Pope Francis last summer and asked him to meet with someone with the disease.
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In 2018, Elena Cattaneo was selected to be a new honorary doctor at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University.
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Elena Cattaneo has strong links to the research field at Lund University, where she spent time conducting research since the 1990s, and has continued since then.