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  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Pierluigi Gambetti is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology and neurology. Other areas of study include nutrition and dietetics, infectious diseases, and gastroenterology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass prion diseases and protein misfolding, neurological diseases and metabolism, trace elements in health, infectious encephalopathies and encephalitis, celiac disease research and management, folate and B vitamins research, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Gambetti's recent publications cover various aspects of prion diseases and neurological disorders. Some notable papers include:

  • Evaluation of a New Criterion for Detecting Prion Disease With Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2020) - JAMA Neurology
  • Identification of novel risk loci and causal insights for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a genome-wide association study (2020) - The Lancet Neurology
  • Prion propagation estimated from brain diffusion MRI is subtype dependent in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (2020) - Acta Neuropathologica
  • Co-existence of PrPD types 1 and 2 in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of the VV subgroup: phenotypic and prion protein characteristics (2020) - Scientific Reports
  • Phenotypic diversity of genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a histo-molecular-based classification (2021) - Acta Neuropathologica

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors. Some of the most frequent co-authors include:

  • Brian S. Appleby
  • Piero Parchi
  • Sabina Capellari
  • Anna Ladogana
  • Janis Blevins

Gambetti's research has been published in several venues with multiple contributions to some, including:

  • Acta Neuropathologica
  • Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Neurology

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Gambetti was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Classification of sporadic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease based on molecular and phenotypic analysis of 300 subjects

    Piero Parchi;Armin Giese;Sabina Capellari;Paul Brown

  • Molecular basis of phenotypic variability in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

    Piero Parchi;Rudolph Castellani;Sabina Capellari;Bernardino Ghetti

  • Evidence for the Conformation of the Pathologic Isoform of the Prion Protein Enciphering and Propagating Prion Diversity

    Glenn C. Telling;Piero Parchi;Stephen J. DeArmond;Pietro Cortelli

  • Fatal familial insomnia and familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: disease phenotype determined by a DNA polymorphism

    Lev G. Goldfarb;Robert B. Petersen;Massimo Tabaton;Paul Brown

  • Fatal familial insomnia and dysautonomia with selective degeneration of thalamic nuclei

    Elio Lugaresi;Rossella Medori;Pasquale Montagna;Agostino Baruzzi

  • Fatal Familial Insomnia, a Prion Disease with a Mutation at Codon 178 of the Prion Protein Gene

    Rossella Medori;Hans Juergen Tritschler;Andréa Leblanc;Federico Villare

  • Sporadic and familial CJD: classification and characterisation

    Pierluigi Gambetti;Qingzhong Kong;Wenquan Zou;Piero Parchi

  • Parkinson disease, dementia, and alzheimer disease: Clinicopathological correlations

    Fraņois Boller;Tomohiko Mizutani;Uros Roessmann;Pierluigi Gambetti

  • Truncated forms of the human prion protein in normal brain and in prion diseases.

    Shu G. Chen;David B. Teplow;Piero Parchi;Jan K. Teller

  • Morvan's syndrome: peripheral and central nervous system and cardiac involvement with antibodies to voltage-gated potassium channels

    Rocco Liguori;A. Vincent;L. Clover;P. Avoni

  • Familial and sporadic fatal insomnia.

    Pasquale Montagna;Pierluigi Gambetti;Pietro Cortelli;Elio Lugaresi

  • Quantifying prion disease penetrance using large population control cohorts

    Eric Vallabh Minikel;Eric Vallabh Minikel;Sonia M. Vallabh;Sonia M. Vallabh;Monkol Lek;Monkol Lek;Karol Estrada;Karol Estrada

  • Sporadic human prion diseases: molecular insights and diagnosis

    Gianfranco Puoti;Alberto Bizzi;Gianluigi Forloni;Jiri G Safar

  • Genetic influence on the structural variations of the abnormal prion protein

    Piero Parchi;Wenquan Zou;Wen Wang;Paul Brown

  • A novel human disease with abnormal prion protein sensitive to protease

    Pierluigi Gambetti;Zhiqian Dong;Jue Yuan;Xiangzhu Xiao

  • Chronic wasting disease and potential transmission to humans.

    Ermias D. Belay;Ryan A. Maddox;Elizabeth S. Williams;Michael W. Miller

  • Molecular assessment of the potential transmissibilities of BSE and scrapie to humans

    Gregory J. Raymond;James Hope;David A. Kocisko;David A. Kocisko;Suzette A. Priola

  • Chronic Wasting Disease of Elk: Transmissibility to Humans Examined by Transgenic Mouse Models

    Qingzhong Kong;Shenghai Huang;Wenquan Zou;Difernando Vanegas

  • pH-dependent stability and conformation of the recombinant human prion protein PrP(90-231).

    Wieslaw Swietnicki;Robert B. Petersen;Pierluigi Gambetti;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Immunohistochemical localization of glial fibrillary acidic protein in human glial neoplasms.

    Manuel E. Velasco;Doris Dahl;Uros Roessmann;Pierluigi Gambetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Piero Parchi
Piero Parchi University of Bologna
Robert B. Petersen
Robert B. Petersen Case Western Reserve University
Bernardino Ghetti
Bernardino Ghetti Indiana University
Pasquale Montagna
Pasquale Montagna University of Bologna
Elio Lugaresi
Elio Lugaresi University of Bologna
George Perry
George Perry The University of Texas at San Antonio
Lawrence B. Schonberger
Lawrence B. Schonberger Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Man Sun Sy
Man Sun Sy Case Western Reserve University
Pietro Cortelli
Pietro Cortelli University of Bologna
Witold K. Surewicz
Witold K. Surewicz Case Western Reserve University

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