Stefano Sandrone (1988) is an Italian

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and a Senior

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Life and works

Stefano Sandrone was born in

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, on the 1st of February 1988, and obtained a Ph.D. in

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, United Kingdom, where he started his career as a

. In 2014 he was selected as a young scientist for the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in

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, which was attended by 37

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, and appeared in ''

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'' magazine’s list of the ‘most promising Italians under 35’. In 2015 he co-authored the book entitled '' Brain Renaissance'', and, for this, he won the biennial Award for Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences presented by the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences. He also appeared as a contributor to the 41st edition of the ''

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''. In 2016 Sandrone was awarded the H. Richard Tyler Award presented by the

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, which is the world’s largest association of neurologists,. In 2017 he was elected as Vice Chair of the History of Neurology Section within the same Academy, thus becoming the youngest Vice Chair at the

. In the same year he was also recognised as a Fellow of the

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. In 2018 Sandrone was nominated as one of the eleven experts under 40 within the ''Health Research Section'' and the ''Section for the evaluation of health research projects presented by researchers under 40'' at the Comitato Tecnico Sanitario,

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. In 2019 he was awarded the Lawrence C. McHenry Award from the

, thus winning his second ''Academy Award'' in three years. Moreover, in the same year he was elected as the youngest Chair within the

, and in July he was awarded the

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Award from

for ‘his significant contribution to the support of academic women at the College’. Later in the year, he also won the ''Science Educator Award'' awarded from the

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(SfN), which is 'the world's largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and the nervous system’. In 2020 he won two additional educational awards, namely the President’s Award for Excellence in Education awarded from

and the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the

, thus winning his third Academy Award in four years. In the same year, he was also recognised as a Senior Fellow of the

. In 2021 he published ''Nobel Life'', a book edited by

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and published by

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, which has been selected by

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as an honourable mention in The Best Higher Education Books Of 2021. Sandrone's works also include the rediscovery of the manuscript of the first

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experiment, which has been featured in several magazines and newspapers, and the narration of the '(delayed) history of the brain lymphatic system’ in ''

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''.

Awards and honours

* 2014 Included in Wired magazine list of ‘promising Italians under 35’ * 2016 H. Richard Tyler Award for the History of Neurology presented by the

* 2016 Biennial Award for Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences presented by the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences * 2019 Lawrence C. McHenry Award presented by the

* 2019 Julia Higgins Award awarded from

* 2019 Science Educator Award awarded from the

* 2020 President’s Award for Excellence in Education awarded from

* 2020 A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the

References

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