Affiliation: Humanitas University, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Pieve Emanuele (MI), Italy

Dr Marco Rasile’s expertise is in the field of neuroimmunology and specifically in the study of infection-mediated maternal immune activation consequences on offspring brain development. His major interest lies in studying the neurovascular unit anomalies induced by inflammation during development or ageing processes. He earned his MS in Medical Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine from the University of Milan (Italy), and later his PhD in Morphological Sciences from the same institution. In 2019 Dr. Rasile temporary joined the McCarthy lab at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) to investigate sexual dimorphisms in cerebrovascular development. At present, he is a post-doctoral fellow in the Matteoli lab at Humanitas Research Hospital and, since 2014, he is a lecturer in Human Anatomy courses for Nursing and Physiotherapy degree programmes at Humanitas University.