Vincenzo Pirrotta
American biologist
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Vincenzo Pirrotta's Degrees
- Masters Biotechnology Stanford University
- Bachelors Biochemistry University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vincenzo Pirrotta is a biologist known for his work on Drosophila and polycomb group proteins. Born in Palermo, Italy, Pirotta migrated to the United States and enrolled at Harvard University. While at Harvard, he obtained undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral fellowships in physical chemistry and molecular biology. He later moved to Europe where he began studying gene regulation in bacteriophages and Drosophila . He was appointed assistant professor at the University of Basel in 1972. Pirotta returned to the United States, earning a full professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1992. He then took up the position of professor of zoology at the University of Geneva in 2002, and in 2004 became a distinguished professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers University.
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