Luigi Naldini, Winner of the 2019 Jeantet-Collen Prize for Translational Medicine

Luigi Naldini received his M.D. from the University of Turin, Italy and his Ph.D. from the University of Rome. In the mid 90’s he moved to the Salk Institute in San Diego, USA, to carry out his research work in the laboratories of Inder Verma and Didier Trono, where they pioneered the development of lentiviral gene transfer vectors from HIV. He then spent 2 years in the biotechnology industry in San Francisco, before moving back to academia in Turin. Since 2008 he has been the Director of the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy of Milan (SR-Tiget) and Professor at the “Vita Salute” San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy.