Prof. Francesco Moccia

Francesco Moccia was awarded a B.Sc. in 1995 from the University of Pavia and a Ph.D. in Physiology in 2000 from the University of Turin, followed by Postdoctoral training at the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (2000-2001). He is an Associate Professor of Physiology at the Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, Italy. Furthermore, he has been Vice-President of the Italian Society of Cardiovascular Research, and is now Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Experimental and Applied Biology, University of Pavia, and Associate Editor for several peer-reviewed journals, including IJMS. His primary areas of research interest are in the vascular endothelium and calcium signaling, and his primary goal is to contributing to designing an effective strategy to exploit endothelial Ca2+ signaling to induce therapeutic angiogenesis.