Piero Carninci
Deputy Director at RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences and Head of Genomics Research Center at Human Technopole
Piero Carninci is a geneticist, currently Team Leader for Laboratory for Transcriptome Technology and Deputy Centre Director at the RIKEN Centre for Integrative Medical Sciences in Yokohama (Japan). Piero is responsible for the creation and development of various new technologies for DNA and RNA sequencing and analysis. He has also been involved in leading many large scale national and international initiatives, such as FANTOM, ENCODE and more recently the Human Cell Atlas. He has been living in Japan for the past 20 years and will be bringing his expert advice to help build and develop the Centre for Genomics.
Visit website: https://humantechnopole.it/en/people/piero-carninci/
See also: RIKEN - Organisation dedicated to innovative research in fields including the entire range of the natural sciences
Details last updated 02-Dec-2019
Piero Carninci News
Could immune cells be the secret to extreme longevity?
Live Science - 15-Nov-2019
Unusually high concentrations of T helper cells found in supercentenarians bloodstream
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Medical Xpress - 13-Nov-2019
Relatively immune to infections and cancers - also get to live more than 110 years
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