Name: Costanza Lagrasta
Date and place of birth: 04/15/1961, Canosa , Bari, ITALY
Education High School: Liceo Scientifico 1980
Degree in Cell Biology.: University of Pavia 1985
Current Italian Appointment : Research Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Parma from 2001
Previous Appointments:PHD Faculty of Medicine, University of Parma FROM 1990-2001
Post-doctoral fellowship, Department of Pathology, University of Parma from 1985-1990
Previously Supported Research: Co-Investigator of the Italian MIUR Grant entitled: “Cardiomyopathy of iron-deficient anemia in pregnancy”, 1987-1990
Co-Investigator on bilateral Italy-USA CNR Grants:
"Perinatal cell and tissue dynamics in the myocardium",1987
"Hypothermia and the Heart", 1987
Co-Investigator of the Italian MIUR Grant entitled: “Heart Failure”, 1990-96
Co-Investigator of the CNR Grant entitled: “Myocyte Hyperplasia in the Adult Heart “,1992-1995
Co-Investigator of the CNR Grant entitled: “Effects of myocardial damage on the molecular and cellular response of cardiac myocytes”, 1997
Co-Investigator of the Italian MIUR Grant entitled: “Cellular mechanisms of the transition from cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure”, 1998-2000
Currently Supported Research: Co-Investigator of the Italian Grant FIRB entitled: “Cell transplantation as alternative to organ transplantation: studies on growth and differentiation processes of stem cells committed to cardiovascular phenotypes", 2002-2007;
Co-Investigator of the Italian Grant MIUR entitled: “The different regenerative potential of resident and extracardiac progenitors in cardiac repair”, 2003-2007;
Membership: Italian Society of Italian Society of Cardiovascular Research (SIRC)
Teaching Experience:Lectures on Immunoistochemistry in medical students and residents, Department of Pathology, University of Parma, from November 2001
Lectures on medicine to students of the Course of Laboratory technician, University of Parma, from 2001
Mentor to several medical students for M.D. thesis, University of Parma.
