Dr. Pietro Chiurazzi

Pietro Chiurazzi, born in Rome (Italy) in 1967, graduated in Medicine in 1992 and specialized in Medical Genetics in 1996 at the Catholic University in Rome (Italy). He worked two years at the Department of Clinical Genetics of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), where he obtained the PhD in Genetics in 2001 with a Thesis on the fragile X syndrome. After three years as Researcher in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Messina (Italy), he is now researcher and associate Professor of Genetics at the Institute of Medical Genetics of the Catholic University in Rome (Italy). His main research interests are the fragile X syndrome and other X-linked mental retardation conditions, epigenetic regulation of gene expression, microarray analysis of gene expression, bioinformatics.