Dr. Salvatore Sechi : NIDDK

Dr. Salvatore Sechi

DDEMD
DIVISION DIABETES, ENDOCRINOLOGY, & METABOLIC DISEASES
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Building 2DEM, Room 611
6707 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-594-8814
Fax: 301-480-3503
Email: sechis@mail.nih.gov

Current Position:
Director, Proteomic Program

Current Portfolio/Responsibilities:

Manage a portfolio on structural biology and proteomics for DEM.



Previous Training and Experience:

Chemistry degree (Perito Chimico) at Technical Industrial State Institute,

      Venice, Italy (1975-1981)
Doctoral Degree in Biology/Biochemistry at University of Padua, Italy (1981-1987)
Department of Biology, University of Padua, Doctoral Thesis (1984-1987)

Postgraduate student for board certification, Department of Neurology, University

      of Padua (1988)
Product Specialist Pharmacia-LKB Diagnostic Division (1989)
Fogarty Visiting Fellow, Protein Chemistry section, Laboratory of Experimental

      Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute (1990-1993)

Visiting Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Allergy and Immunology, National Institute

      of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1993-1996)
Research Associate, Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry, The Rockefeller University

      (1996-1998)
Principal Investigator at DuPont Life Sciences (1998-1999)

Visiting Professor of Methodology in Biochemistry, University of Padua, Italy (1999)

Head, Mass Spectrometry Unit, National Institute on Aging (1999-2001)


Committees/ Working Groups:

Extramural Policy and Procedure Oversight Committee (EPPOC), DEM representative

NIH Roadmap Building Blocks, Biological Pathways & Networks implementation group

Science Officer for NIH Roadmap National Technology Centers for Networks

      and Pathways

Lead Science Officer for Andrea Califano’s NCBC NIH Roadmap center

Lead, Standards in Proteomics NIH Roadmap activities and MS repository

Human Proteome Organization Plasma Proteome Project – NIDDK representative

NIGMS Program on structural biology of membrane protein – NIDDK representative

Protein Data Bank – NIDDK representative


Other Activities:

Member of the Proteome Society Advisory Council

Member NIH Proteomic Interest group Steering Committee

Editorial board of Molecular Biotechnology

Reviewer for Journal of Chromatography, Journal of Proteome Research,

      Mass Spectrometry Review, Proteomics, and Journal of the American Society for

            Mass Spectrometry

Page last updated: September 01, 2007

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