Biography
Paolo Ceppi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) since Summer 2019. He received his PhD from the University of Torino in 2011, followed by a postdoctoral appointment in the laboratory of Prof. Marcus Peter at the R.H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Northwestern University in Chicago. In 2015 he was appointed as a Junior Group Leader (equivalent to Assist. Prof.) at the Interdisciplinary Center of Clinical Research (IZKF) of the FAU University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Germany. In 2017 he was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. His research has been funded by the Department of Defense (in US), the German Cancer Aid and the German Research Foundation (in Germany), the Danish Independent Research Fund, Novo Nordisk Foundation (2021 Hallas-Møller Ascending Investigator Grant), Danish Cancer Society and Sygeforsikringen "Danmark".
Ramesh V, Gollavilli PN, Pinna L, Siddiqui MA, Turtos AM, Napoli F, Antonelli Y, LealEgaña A, Havelund JF, Jakobsen ST, Boiteux EL, Volante M, Faergeman NJ, Jensen ON, Siersbaek R, Somyajit K, Ceppi P. Propionate reinforces epithelial identity and reduces aggressiveness of lung carcinoma. EMBO Mol Med. 2023 Dec 7;15(12):e17836. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202317836. Epub 2023 Sep 28. PMID: 37766669; PMCID: PMC10701619
