CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM

Personal Information

Surname:                                                      Donadio

First Name:                                                  Vincenzo

Nationality:                                                  Italian

Date, month and year of birth:                  6^rd  September 1968

Place of birth:                                              Castronuovo (POTENZA), Italy

Phone:                                                  EMAIL: vincenzo.donadio@unibo.it

                                                                               vincenzoangelo.donadio@isnb.it

Education

1986 Scientific high school diploma.

1994 Graduation  in Medicine ,University of Bologna-Italy with

          maximum marks (cum laude) and thesis on:        

          “Sympathetic skin response in the diseases of Vegetative Nervous System ”.

2000 Specialization in Neurology, University of Bologna

2005 PhD at the Department of Neurosciences, University of Bologna

Positions and Employment

1993-1995  Resident, Department of Neurosciences, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

1996-2000  Neurologist in training Department of Neurosciences, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

2006-2011 Resident in Neurology, Department of Neurosciences, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy) 

2012-2020 Neurologist, associate medical director (Day Hospital supervisor)     

2020-         Director of the Neuromuscular and Neuroimmunology Unit                           

Professional background experience

From September 2000 to December 2001: scholarship at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Goteborg University, Sweden           

2004: one year grant at the Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Telese Terme (BN, Italy) to realize a project on immunohistochemical study of skin innervation

From January 2005 to December 2005: fellowship grant from European Neurogical Society at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Goteborg University, Sweden

to realize the project “Sympathetic dysfunctions during several neurological diseases”

From January 2009 to June 2009: fellowship grant from European Neurogical Society at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Goteborg University, Sweden

to realize the project “A new method to study nociceptors and autonomic nerve fibers: implication for pain and autonomic disorders”

2010-2017 coordinator of the Autonomic Nervous System group of study which belong to the Italian Neurophysiology Society

From 2011 reviewer for the National Research Council (Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport) of Romania;

2010-2015: elected in the Italian Neurophysiology Society boarding

2015- Associate investigator at NINDS, NIH-Bethesda (USA) for the project “Clinical Laboratory Evaluation of Primary Chronic Autonomic Failure” (Principal investigator David Golstein)

2015 Associate investigator at University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) for the project “Biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease in the veteran patient population” (Principal investigator John J. Shacka)

2017: Qualification for university teaching- Associate Professor of Neurology

2021 Collaborator at Case Western University of Cleveland (USA) for a research project (Principal investigator Wenquan Zou)

2022: Qualification for university teaching- Full Professor of Neurology

Member of the following scientific societies: Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SINC), Italian Society of Neurology (SIN) and European Academy of Neurology (EAN).

Ad Hoc REWIEVER for:

New England Journal of Medicine, Brain, Brain Stimulation, Journal Physiology, Journal Applied Physiology, Movement Disorders, European Journal Neurology, European Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebellum, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, Autonomic Neuroscience, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuroscience Letters, Journal Breath Research, Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, Neurological Sciences.

1996: Premio di Medicina "Prof. Potito Petrone" 7a edizione, Pignola (PZ)

2002: best poster presentation Italian meeting of Clinical neurofisiology association (Bologna)

2012: PK Thomas Award for the best paper on peripheral nerve disorders, 22th meeting of the European Neurological Society, Praga

2015: Investigator award for the presentation “Phosphorylated α-synuclein biomarker in skin nerves is differently expressed in pure autonomic failure and idiopathic Parkinson disease” during the 1th European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Congress in Berlin 2015

Electromyography and Sympathetic Skin Response in humans during sleep and wakefulness

and in patients with sleep disorders and coma.

Microneurography which is an advanced neurophysiological method for studying the activity of the human sympathetic nervous system

Skin biopsy which represent a histological technique for counting the number of nerve fibres in small skin biopsies. More recently I developed a technique to identify misfolded α-synuclein (α-syn) in skin nerves as biomarker for synucleinopathies included dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy

Research Support.

Ongoing Research

Ricerca Finalizzata Italian Ministry of Health (Grant RF-2016-02362047). From 2019 to 2021 with a total budget (100%): 434.025 euro.

Title: Early diagnosis and pathogenesis of Idiopathic Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy Bodies: the search for reliable biomarkers

Role: PI

Ricerca Finalizzata Italian Ministry of Health (Grant RF-2021-12374029). From 2023 to 2026 with a total budget (100%): 450.000 euro.

Title: Skin misfolded alpha-synuclein as a new biomarker for dementia with Lewy bodies

Role: PI

More than 100 scientific articles in indexes international journals

Official H index: 35                    Source: Scopus                 Scopus Author Id: 6507390668

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1290-7318

Language

Fluent, spoken and written English: experienced writing reports, documentation, articles and letters. Fluent, spoken and written French.

Bologna 14/09/2023