10 Facts About Tullio Pozzan

Tullio Pozzan 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.

Tullio Pozzan was born into a family associated with the medical profession, including a grandfather whom he was named after.

Tullio Pozzan was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge.

Tullio Pozzan 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.

From 2009 Tullio Pozzan was director of the National Research Council of Italy's Institute of Neuroscience.

Tullio Pozzan was interested in the signaling pathway controlled by cyclic adenosine monophosphate.

Tullio Pozzan's group generated the first genetically encoded fluorescent cAMP probe, contributed to establishing the concept of cAMP microdomains and described the existence of an autonomous cAMP homeostatic mechanism within the matrix of mitochondria.

Tullio Pozzan was member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, of the Accademia dei Lincei, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Tullio Pozzan was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2018.

Tullio Pozzan died on the afternoon of 15 October 2022, following a brief illness during which he was nursed by his wife Carla.