Awards & Fellowships:

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• March 12, 2023: Long Service Editor Award (Public Library of Science, PLOS).

• Since May 2022: iBiology educator.

• November 25, 2021: Feature Paper: "Acidic and Hypoxic Microenvironment in Melanoma: Impact of Tumour Exosomes on Disease Progression." by Boussadia, Z.; Gambardella, A.R.; Mattei, F.; Parolini, I. Cells 2021, 10, 3311. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10123311

• July 5 ,2017: Superquark (a documentary transmitted on RAIUno, the italian national network conducted by Piero Angela and Dr. Barbara Gallavotti) described the research acitivity of the Organ on Chip project, a collaborative laboratory network between Istituto Superiore di Sanità and CNR (leaded by Dr. Fabrizio Mattei, Dr. Giovanna Schiavoni and Dr. Luca Businaro).

• Front cover recognition of the journal "Cytokine and Growth Factors Review" for a scientific image deals with the article Mattei F., Schiavoni G., Tough D.F. "Regulation of immune cell homeostasis by type I interferons." Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews 21 (4): 227-36, 2010.

• May 2011: Winner of the "Best Abstract and Oral Presentation Award" at the "Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunomonitoring International Congress", Budapest, Hungary.

• November 2013: Winner of the "Best Poster Award" at the V ° ARTOI International Conference, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

• November 2012: Special mention by the National Cancer Institute (USA) for the article Businaro L., et al. Cross talk between cancer and immune cells: exploring complex dynamics in a microfluidic environment. Lab Chip 2013, 13: 229-239. (http://physics.cancer.gov/research/2012/nov/po_news_f.aspx).

• Inside cover recognition of the journal "Lab on a Chip" for a scientific image relating to the article Businaro L., Mattei F. et al. "Cross talk between cancer and immune cells: exploring complex dynamics in a microfluidic environment" Lab Chip, 13: 229-239, 2013.

• January 26, 1996: Fellowship awarded at the National Cancer Institute "Regina Elena" (Rome, Italy).

• March 24, 1997: Fellowship awarded at the National Cancer Institute "Regina Elena" (Rome, Italy).

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Conference communications (personal & group members oral communications, invited speaker)

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• June 23, 2023: Invited Speaker with a Webinar titled "React4Life Webinars - Organs-on-Chip: a smart tool to investigate the crosstalk between immune and tumor cells in onco-immunology research", Organized by Silvia Scaglione (React4Life, co-Chief Scientist Officer).

• November 28, 2022: Presentation of the International Workshop "Bridging Immunity to Cancer: Models of Study and New Research Outcomes" (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy).

• November 16, 2022: Invited Speaker, Trainee-centered Webinar/Eosinophil-related Methodology, titled "Methods to Study Eosinophil-Tumor Cell Interactions", organized by International Eosinophil Society (Moderator: Sharon Grysaru Tal, PhD).

• May 23, 2022: Sara Andreone, Francesca Spadaro, Iole Macchia, Mario Falchi, Antonella Tinari, Silvia Piconese, Claudia Afferni, Fabrizio Mattei, Giovanna Schiavoni. "Eosinophils acquire immune checkpoint molecules through trogocytosis: implications in cancer immunity" XIII SIICA International Congress, May 23-26, 2022, Naples, Italy.

• May 9, 2019: Lecturer for the Training Course for doctors and biologists entitled "Models of disease for preclinical experimentation in oncology" (second edition), at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; Title of the intervention: "Organs -on-Chip: a new approach for the study of the interactions between cells of the immune system and tumors ".

• November 22, 2018: Lecturer for the Training Course for doctors and biologists entitled "Models of disease for preclinical experimentation in oncology" (first edition), at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; Title of the intervention: "Organs -on-Chip: a new approach for studying the interactions between immune cells and tumors".

• 5-6 July 2018: Invited Speaker at the International Conference "Cancer epigenetic Therapies - New targets, new combinations and link to immunotherapy" University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” Naples, Italy. Title of the paper: "Use of epigenetic drugs plus immunotherapy to improve the crosstalk between cancer and immune cells.".

• November 2017: Oral communication entitled "Microfluidic chip technology as an innovative tool to investigate cancer and immune cells crosstalk for chemo- and immunotherapy" presented for the 30th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cell Cultures "Tumor-immune cell interface in solid and hematological malignancies” in Milan, Italy.

• September 2017: Invited Speaker at the NanoInnovation 2017 International Congress, Rome, Italy. Title of the paper: "Exploiting Microfluidic chips to investigate cancer and immune cells crosstalk".

• 24-27 April 2017: Invited Speaker at the International Meeting "Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunomonitoring International Congress", Prague, Czech Republic. Title of the speech: "Microfluidic technology as a new tool to investigate cancer and immune cells crosstalk for immunotherapy".

• May 16, 2017: Invited Speaker at the Workshop "Innovation in Biomedicine: advanced in vitro and in silico models" - Campus Biomedico University, Rome, Italy. Title of the paper: "Cell-on-chip approaches as new strategies to investigate cancer and immune cell crosstalk in chemo and immunotherapy".

• 10 December 2015: Invited Speaker at the Workshop “New technologies in Biomedicine” - University Campus Biomedico di Roma, Rome, Italy.

• November 25, 2015: Invited Speaker at the Center de Recherche des Cordeliers - Sorbonne Universitè (Paris, France) with a seminar entitled "Combining Type I IFN and 5’Aza-2’-Deoxycitidine to improve anti - tumor response against melanoma".

• 27-30 April 2015: Invited Speaker at the International Meeting “Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunomonitoring International Congress”, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Title of the speech: "Combining Type I IFN and 5'Aza-2'-Deoxycitidine to improve anti-tumor response against melanoma".

• April 22-25, 2013: Invited Speaker at the International Meeting “Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunomonitoring International Congress”, Krakow, Poland. Title of the paper: "Exploring the crosstalk between immune cells and cancer by a Cell-on-Chip approach".

• May 2012: Oral intervention entitled "Microfluidic chips for the study of the crosstalk between cells of the immune system and cancer cells" and organized as part of the series of internal seminars of the Department of Hematology, Onocology and Molecular Medicine of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.

• 2-5 May 2011: Invited Speaker at the International Meeting “Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunomonitoring International Congress”, Budapest, Hungary. Title of the paper: "IRF-8 controls melanoma progression by regulating cancer and immune cell cross-talk within the tumor microenvironment".

• 13-16 September 2009: Oral communication at the “2nd European Congress of Immunology” Berlin, Germany. Title of the paper: "Role of IRF-8 in the interface of melanoma tumor cell-immune system interaction".

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Project evaluation activity

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• From May 2022: Evaluator of research projects on behalf of for National Academic institutions (University of Parma, University of Firenze).

• From March 2021: Evaluator of research projects on behalf of the ERA PerMed European Consortium as part of the "Fourth ERA PerMed Joint Transnational Call 2021 (JTC2021)".

• From January 2020: evaluation of projects for the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.

• From May 2019: evaluation of projects for FWO Belgium.

• Evaluation of projects for the University of Antwerp - Centers of Excellence within the Call 2018-2019.

• From November 2018: project evaluation for Big C Grants - Norfolk's Cancer Charity.

• From November 2018: evaluator for MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research) - Evaluation of a PRIN-2017 project.

• Since November 2018: project evaluator for the European Science Foundation.

• Since March 2015: project evaluator for the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).

• From February 2015: External expert of the European Community for the evaluation of research projects in the scientific fields of competence.

• Since January 2015: project evaluator for the Swiss National Science Foundation.

 

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Scientific Committees & organization of conferences/workshops/webinars

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• November 28, 2023: Scientific Coordinator and Chair member of the online International Workshop titled “Bridging Immunity to Cancer: The Contribution of the Tumor Microenvironment and Metabolism” (held and supported by the Department of Oncology and Molecular Medicine at Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy).

• January 30, 2023: Organizer & Chairperson of the Scientific Seminar titled "Integrating a 3D human tumor microenvironment and the MIVO organ on a chip technology for more predictive in vitro outcomes", held by Dr. Silvia Scaglione (React4Life, co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer) in the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome Italy.

• November 28-29, 2022: Scientific Coordinator and Chair member of the online International Workshop titled “Bridging Immunity to Cancer: Models of Study and New Research Outcomes” (held and supported by the Department of Oncology and Molecular Medicine at Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy).

• February 2015: Animal Protocol Adviser for the scientific evaluation and approval of the animal testing protocols, in reference to the Italian legislative decree n. 26, March 4, 2014.

• European Committee expert (Horizon2020 Programme).

• From 8 April 2021: Member of the Encyclopedia Advisory Board (MDPI).

• From March 2021: Member of the "Peer Review Panel" of the ERA Permed European Consortium as part of the Joint Transnational Calls 2021.

• 3 July 2015: Appointment as Member of the Examining Commission for the Italian Public Competition, based on qualifications and by interview, for the awarding of a fellowship for graduates, lasting one year, to be used at the Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.

• May 16, 2017: Member of the Scientific Committee for the organization of the Workshop: "Innovation in Biomedicine: advanced in vitro and in silico models" - Campus Biomedico University, Rome, Italy.

• 2017-2020: Member of the Board of Expert Auditors of the “European Science Foundation”.

• From 2017 to today: Member of REPRISE (“Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation”) for the evaluation of international research projects on behalf of MIUR.

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