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Ottavio Arancio, MD, PhD, Columbia University
Dr. Ottavio Arancio received his Ph.D and M.D. from the University of Pisa (Italy).
From 1981 to 1986 he took residency training in Neurology at the University of Verona (Italy).
Dr. Arancio has held Faculty appointments at Columbia University, NYU School of Medicine and at SUNY HSCB.
In 2004 he became Faculty member of the Dept of Pathology and Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University.
His honors include the "G.
Moruzzi Fellowship" (Georgetown University), the "Anna Villa Rusconi Foundation Prize" (Italy), and the "INSERM Poste vert Fellowship" (France), Fidia Fellowship, Italy; Speaker's Fund for Biomedical Research Award; Investigator Initiated Research Award from the Alzheimer Association; AHAF centennial Award, Zenith Award, and Margaret Cahn Research Award (2008).
Dr Arancio is a cellular neurobiologist who has contributed to the characterization of the mechanisms of learning in both normal conditions and during neurodegenerative diseases.
During the last ten years he has pioneered the field of mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Arancio's laboratory has focused primarily on events triggered by amyloid protein.