Francesco Papaleo

Related Ongoing Grants

March 2025- March 2027: Supervisor and hosting lab. HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships. Title: “PRESERT: linking prefrontal cortex, serotonin transporter and social cognition”. 172750 €.
March 2023- March 2025: Supervisor and hosting lab. HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships. Title: “Social cognition in 22qll.2 schizophrenia mouse model – role of mPFC dysfunction and oxytocin (LgDel-mPFC)”. Grant N. 101066405. 172750 €.
October 2022- October 2025: Co-PI. Austrian Science Fund. Title: “Transporter-mediated efflux as therapeutic strategy”. 396000 €.

Dautan D, Monai A, Maltese F, Chang X, Molent C, Mauro D, Galbusera A, Vecchia D, Antonelli F, Benedetti A, Drago F, Leggio GM, Pagani M, Fellin T, Gozzi A, Schumann G, Managò F, Papaleo F*.Cortico-Cortical Transfer of Socially Derived Information Gates Emotion Discrimination. Nature Neuroscience. In Press. *Corresponding author.
Scheggia D, La Greca F, Maltese F, Chiacchierini G, Italia M, Molent C, Bernardi F, Carrano N, Zianni E, Gardoni F, Diluca M, Papaleo F. Reciprocal cortico-amygdala connections regulate prosocial and selfish choices in mice. Nature Neuroscience. 2022. Nov;25(11):1505-1518. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01179-2.
3. Scheggia D, Managò F, Maltese F, Bruni S, Nigro M, Dautan D, Latuske P, Contarini G, Gomez-Gonzalo M, Requie LM, Ferretti V, Castellani G, Mauro D, Bonavia A, Carmignoto G, Yizhar O, Papaleo F*. Somatostatin interneurons in the prefrontal cortex control affective state discrimination in mice. Nature Neuroscience. 2020 Jan;23(1):47-60. doi: 10.1038/s41593-019-0551-8. *Corresponding author.