Claudia Bagni

Claudia Bagni, Full Professor at the University of Lausanne, received her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. After postdoctoral positions held at the CNRS in Toulouse, Harvard University in Cambridge and EMBL in Heidelberg, she established her laboratory at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, to continue as full professor and group leader at the K University of Leuven –VIB, Belgium. In 2016 she became the Director of the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences at the University of Lausanne and in 2021 Vice-Dean of Research and Innovation at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne.

Her laboratory has a long-lasting interest in the study of intellectual disabilities such as Fragile X Syndrome and Autism in which the recurring aspect is the dysregulation of the synaptic proteome. She is interested in examining molecular mechanisms at dysfunctional synapses to identify processes that govern impaired behaviors. Her work also uncovered common mechanisms causing intellectual disabilities or protecting towards cancer progression. Her laboratory uses mice, flies, human cells, and organoids.

Among the prizes and awards: she was elected EMBO member and received the UCB Award and the Solvay Prize given by the Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation for Neuroscience (BE), the Nestle Research & Development – Women in Science Award (CH), and she is an honorary member of the Italian fragile X association.

She is a member of several prestigious international panels acting as reviewer, advisor, or evaluator.