Prof. Enrico Cherubini:
Biography
Born in Roma in 1943, Enrico Cherubini got his M.D. Degree at the University of Roma in 1968. In 1972 he obtained the specialization degree in Child Neurology from the University of Roma and in EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology from the Universite’ Aix-Marseilles, France. After a first experience in Marseilles in 1971 (with H. Gastaut and R. Naquet) and in Los Angeles (UCLA, 1976-1978), in 1981 he joined Alan North at MIT in Boston where he remained until 1984. In 1984, he moved to INSERM, Unite’ 29 in Paris where he was appointed Directeur de Recherche. He remained in Paris until the end of 1991 when he moved back to Italy to SISSA as Full Professor in Physiology.
His major research interests are in developmental neurobiology and synaptic transmission. Together with Y. Ben-Ari in Paris he discovered the excitatory action of GABA during postnatal development and characterized network driven GABAA-mediated oscillatory activity in the immature hippocampus. Current research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying activity-dependent synaptic plasticity processes in the hippocampus during postnatal development.
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