ERC: Marco Sandri

Marco Sandri is Full Professor of Clinical Pathology and has been Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at University of Padova. He received his M.D. degree and the residency in Clinical Pathology at the University of Padova. He carried out postdoctoral work in Alfred L Goldberg lab at Harvard Medical School, Boston. He is particularly interested in understanding the signaling pathways that control muscle mass and muscle force in physiological and pathological conditions. His research aims to identify the mechanisms of weakness for developing therapeutic approaches that preserve muscle function during diseases. In 2005 and 2010 he received the prestigious Dulbecco Telethon career award prize. He received the ERC consolidator grant in 2012 and Advanced grant in 2025 and he has been panel member of ERC consolidator program. From 2021 to present he got the “Highly Cited Researcher” award from CLARIVATE which recognizes the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. In 2025 he got the Highly Ranked Scholar award by ScholarGPS, which recognized the most productive authors (by number of publications) whose works demonstrate exceptional impact (citations) and outstanding quality (h-index).