Giovanna Viale (born 7 July 1949) is an Italian

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who was a professor for

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and director of the Centre of the University and High School of Milan for Bioscience education (CusMiBio).

Life and career

In 1972, Viale received a degree in Biological Sciences at the

University of Genoa The University of Genoa, known also with the acronym UniGe ( it, Università di Genova), is one of the largest universities in Italy. It is located in the city of Genoa and regional Metropolitan City of Genoa, on the Italian Riviera in the Liguri ...

.University of Milan
''Curriculum vitae of Giovanna Viale''
She completed a specialization degree in microbiology in 1976 and another in medical genetics in 1982. In 1978, she worked in the lab of Alan Munro during an

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short-term fellowship at the Department of Pathology, Division of Immunology of the

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in the United Kingdom. In 1985 and 1986, Viale received an EMBO long-term fellowship to work in the lab of P. Cazenave at the ''Unité de Immunochimie Analytique'' of the

Institut Pasteur The Pasteur Institute (french: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines f ...

in Paris, France. In 1993 she worked at the lab of D. Vercelli at the Children's Hospital of the

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in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2000 and 2001 she held a position as a scientific writer/editor and internet specialist at the Office of the Scientific Director at the

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in Bethesda, Maryland. Viale held positions at the ''Institut für Molekulare Virologie'' of the

Technische Universität München The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

, Germany, as a writer and editor of scientific materials in 2001 and 2002. In 2005 and 2006, Viale held lectures at the ''Institut de Formation et de Soins "Le Bon Samaritain"'' in N'Djamena, Chad, on the topics of cell biology and bioinformatics, respectively. Since 2000, she has been an associate professor of general & applied biology at the

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in the Department of Biology and Genetics for the Medical Sciences.Centro Università degli Studi di Milano - Scuola per la diffusione delle Bioscienze
''Chi siamo''
(italian) In 2004, Viale was promoted to co-director of the Centre of the University and High School of Milan for Bioscience education (CusMiBio) and in 2016 she became the director of the CusMiBio.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Viale, Giovanna Italian immunologists Italian geneticists Living people 1949 births Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the University of Milan University of Genoa alumni