Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Napoli, Italy
He is an expert in Functional Genomics applied to Human Genetics. He is expert in Molecular Neuro-oncology and Neurodevelopmental biology . In USA between 1990-1994 he was hired at the Human Genome Center St. Louis School of Medicine (USA) he worked on developing technologies for the establishment of the "Human Genome draft" (Biotechniques 1994, Human Molecular Genetics, 1996, and Nature 2004), with a post-doctoral fellow position as directed by Prof. David Schlessinger. Then as Visiting Scientist at Genentech Inc., San Francisco (CA, USA), as Associate Scientist at the Applied Biosystems Division of Perkin Elmer, directed by Prof. E.Y Chen, Foster City (CA, USA). Since 1994, Dr. Zollo has acquired experiences on the identification of disease genes by sequencing analyses and bioinformatics . He moved then back to Italy in 1994 directing the laboratory of the sequence core analyses of DNA at the Telethon Institute of Milan-TIGEM, directed by Prof. Andrea Ballabio, partecipating on the identification of genes responsible for genetic disorders . In year 1996, Dr. Zollo with an independent research line, identify the human gene (Prune_1) homologue of drosophila gene, in a screen of n.66 drosophila related EST human cDNAs with functions related to human disorders (Banfi et al., 1997 Nature Genetics and D'Angelo et al. Cancer Cell (2004). Since January 2005 at CEINGE (Center of Excellence) Prof. Zollo become Associate Professor of Genetics at University Federico II (2006) of Naples, then Full Professor of Genetics (2018), Prof. of Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics and Functional Genomics at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies. Prof. Zollo is author of more then 140 scientific papers published on international journals with H-index =43 and is also the inventor and holder of n.17 IPs in the field of Oncology, Diagnostics and Therapeutics of which 5 IPs within virus Sars-Cov-2 applications. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0970-7243