SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Focus Proteomics welcomes the members of our Scientific Advisory Board.

Professor Pier Giorgio Righetti

Emeritus Professor
Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Frank A Witzmann, PhD

Professor of Cellular & Integrative Physiology
​Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Patricia M DiBello, PhD 

Professor of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry at Cleveland State University
​National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry 

Advisory Board Bios

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​Professor Pier Giorgio Righetti
Emeritus Professor
Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

​Proessor Righetti earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Pavia in 1965. He then spent 3 years as a Post Doc at MIT and 1 year at Harvard (Cambridge, Mass, USA). He is now Emeritus Professor at the Milan’s Polytechnic.

He is in the Editorial Board of Electrophoresis, J. Proteomics, BioTechniques, Proteomics, Proteomics Clinical Applications. He has co-authored the book Boschetti, E. Righetti, P.G. Low-Abundance Proteome Discovery; State of the Art and Protocols, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2013, pp. 1-341.

Professor Pier Giorgio Righetti

He has developed isoelectric focusing in immobilized pH gradients, multicompartment electrolyzers with isoelectric membranes, membrane-trapped enzyme reactors, temperature-programmed capillary electrophoresis and combinatorial peptide ligand libraries for detection of the low-abundance proteome.

On 560 articles reviewed by the ISI Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters), Righetti scores 22.200 citations, with an average of 36 citations/article and with a H-index of 67. During the years 2005-2013 he has received citations ranging from 1000 to 1200 per year.

He has won the CaSSS (California Separation Science Society) award (October 2006), at that time in its 12th edition, and the Csaba Horvath Medal award, presented on April 15, 2008 by the Connecticut Separation Science Council (Yale University). In 2011, he has been nominated honorary member of the Spanish proteomics society and in 2012 he has won the prestigious Beckman award and medal granted in February at the Geneva MSB meeting. In 2014, in October, in Madrid, he has been given the HuPO award for proteomic research and in November, in Atlanta, the American Electrophoresis Society award.

​​Frank A. Witzmann, PhD
Professor of Cellular & Integrative Physiology
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

​Dr. Witzmann received his Ph.D. in Physiology from Marquette University. He currently serves as Professor of Cellular & Integrative Physiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  He has applied proteomic analyses in a variety of paradigms since the mid-1980’s (well before the term proteomics was coined) and currently directs the use of mass spec-based proteomic approaches in projects ranging from various aspects of toxicology, pharmacology, vascular biology, and renal physiology.  He has published over 180 refereed manuscripts, book chapters, and technical reports regarding his projects.  He also regularly participates in EPA, NIH, and DoD grant and program reviews; is past-president of the Electrophoresis Society (USA); served as Associate Editor for Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics, and is currently on the editorial board of Analytical Biochemistry.

​Frank A. Witzmann, PhD

Patricia M DiBello, PhD

Patricia M DiBello, PhD

Patricia M DiBello, PhD is a protein biochemist with expertise in proteomics, electrophoresis, chromatography, recombinant protein expression, protein isolation, receptor/binding assays and immunoassay development.  For several years she was employed by the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic where her research focused on various aspects of cardiovascular disease including hypertension, coagulation disorders, the molecular mechanisms of alcoholic liver disease and the relationship between dysregulated vitamin B12, folate and homocysteine metabolism in the pathogenesis of cadiovascular disease.  Currently, Dr. DiBello is an adjunct professor of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry at Cleveland State University. Dr. DiBello has published over 45 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and 1 book chapter. She has served as a reviewer for the Journals of Antioxidant and Redox Signaling and Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. She is a life-long member of the National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry.