Santoro Matteo
University of Aberdeen, UK
Biography
Matteo Santoro was born in 1988 in south of Italy. He is currently working on Parkinson’s disease and investigating the role or a protein called HMGB1 in the pathophysiology of the disease. During his PhD Matteo Santoro has received four different prizes for best PhD student poster presentation and talks at different conferences within and outside the University of Aberdeen. He successfully co-authored two peer reviewed research articles on Parkinson’s disease. The latest publication has seen him the main contributor of the study. He is currently working as PhD student on the behavioural characterization of three different MPTP mouse models of Parkinson’s disease and investigating the role of acquired and innate immune system in Parkinson’s disease.