Carlo Alberto Redi

Full Professor of Zoology and an alumnus of Collegio Ghislieri. He is a corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and an honorary member of the Chilean Genetics Society. Managing editor of the European Journal of Histochemistry, he was a member of the Dulbecco Commission on the use of stem cells. He leads the research group that took part in the cloning of “Cumulina” (1998) with Professor Ryuzo Yanagimachi (Honolulu, Hawaii).

His work focuses on the development of an artificial cytoplast for the genetic reprogramming of somatic-cell nuclei and on functional genomics, studying the regulation of gene expression during the early stages of embryonic development.