SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR

The Board of Ring14 selects and hires an external consultant who will act as Scientific Coordinator.

The Coordinator shall perform the following tasks:
- chair meetings of SAB;
- organize and perform onsite-visits to funded laboratories and research centres on the recommendation of the Board and SAB;
- operationally coordinate and follow the entire process of peer review and assist the work of SAB;
- coordinate and develop the organization of workshops or congresses following the recommendations of the Board and of  SAB;
- coordinate and implement the collection of biologic samples for the Biobank and clinical data in the data base of the association;
- update Ring14 literature and provide scientific contents for lay communication. This activity involves a complete study of the current scientific literature as well as an assessment of ongoing research projects on Ring14

Dr. Marco Crimi is the Coordinator of Ring14 International

Email: crimi.marco@ring14.org

Education
- 2000: Bachelor Degree in Medical Biotechnology (University of Milan, Italy)
- 2003: Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine (University of Milan, Italy)

Appointments
2004-2007: Post-Doc researcher (University of California-Irvine, California, USA)
2007-2009: Lab Head - Functional Genomics unit (National Institute of Molecular Genetics, Milan, Italy)
2010-2014: Research Program manager, Fondazione Telethon (Italy)
2015-to date: Scientific Coordinator, Ring14 International (Italy)

Publication record
29 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals ISI-JCR® recorded

ResearcherID nr: A-4032-2008 e ORCID nr: 0000-0001-6903-9163.