Stefano Sandrone

Stefano Sandrone was born in Canelli, Italy, on 1 February 1988, and obtained a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at King's College London, United Kingdom, where he started his career as a teaching fellow. In 2014 he was selected as a young scientist for the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology or Medicine,{{cite web|url=http://www.lindau-nobel.org/de/author/ssandrone/|title=Stefano Sandrone - The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings|website=www.lindau-nobel.org|access-date=26 December 2017}} which was attended by 37 Nobel Laureates,{{cite web|url=http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/laureates/meeting-2014|title=64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting - Laureates|website=www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org|access-date=26 December 2017}} and appeared in Wired magazine's list of the 'most promising Italians under 35’.{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2014/09/10/wired-under-35-stefano-sandrone/|title=Wired Under 35: STEFANO SANDRONE - Wired|date=10 September 2014|website=wired.it|access-date=26 December 2017}}

In 2015 he co-authored the book entitled Brain Renaissance,{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/brain-renaissance-9780199383832?cc=us&lang=en&|title=Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience|date=4 May 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=26 December 2017|isbn=9780199383832}} and, for this, he won the biennial Award for Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences{{cite web |url=http://www.bri.ucla.edu/nha/ishn/ishn-awardees.htm/ |title=International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) Award and Prize Recipients |access-date=2018-02-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209081506/http://www.bri.ucla.edu/nha/ishn/ishn-awardees.htm |archive-date=2016-12-09 }} presented by the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences.{{cite web|url=http://www.ishn.org/|title=ISHN.ORG|website=www.ishn.org|access-date=26 December 2017}} He also appeared as a contributor to the 41st edition of the Gray's Anatomy.{{cite web|url=http://www.elsevier.com/books/grays-anatomy/standring/978-0-7020-5230-9|title=Gray's Anatomy - 41st Edition|last=Elsevier|website=www.elsevier.com|access-date=26 December 2017}}

In 2016 Sandrone was awarded the H. Richard Tyler Award presented by the American Academy of Neurology,{{cite web |url=https://www.aan.com/research-and-awards/awards-history/ |title=Awards History | American Academy of Neurology® |access-date=2017-09-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923145233/https://www.aan.com/research-and-awards/awards-history/ |archive-date=2017-09-23 }} which is the world's largest association of neurologists.{{cite web|url=http://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/2707|title=American Academy of Neurology Announces 2019 Scientific Research Award Winners|website=www.aan.com|access-date=7 April 2019}} In 2017 he was elected as Vice Chair of the History of Neurology Section within the same Academy,{{cite web|url=https://www.aan.com/membership/sections/|title=Join an AAN Section or Community|website=www.aan.com|access-date=26 December 2017}} thus becoming the youngest Vice Chair at the American Academy of Neurology.{{cite web|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2017/05/10/scienza/tuttoscienze/nel-club-dei-cervelli-ouO2SeDAWZrkgJE91E60QO/premium.html|title=Nel club dei cervelli|website=lastampa.it|date=10 May 2017 |access-date=26 December 2017}} In the same year he was also recognised as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.{{cite web|url=http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/|title=Higher Education Academy – Transforming Teaching, Inspiring Learning |website=www.heacademy.ac.uk|access-date=26 December 2017}}

In 2018 Sandrone was nominated as one of the eleven experts under 40 within the Health Research Section and the Section for the evaluation of health research projects presented by researchers under 40 at the Comitato Tecnico Sanitario, Italian Minister of Health.{{cite web|url= http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/temi/p2_6.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=795&area=Ricerca%20sanitaria&menu=comitato |title=salute.gov.it|website=salute.gov.it|access-date=11 November 2018}}

In 2019 he was awarded the Lawrence C. McHenry Award from the American Academy of Neurology, thus winning his second Academy Award in three years. Moreover, in the same year he was elected as the youngest Chair within the American Academy of Neurology,{{cite web|url=http://www.lastampa.it/asti/2019/06/04/news/e-un-neuroscienziato-canellese-l-under-35-piu-promettente-1.36538551|title=Un neuroscienziato canellese l'under 35 piu' promettente|website=lastampa.it|access-date=14 July 2019}} and in July he was awarded the Julia Higgins Award from Imperial College London for 'his significant contribution to the support of academic women at the College'.{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191930/staff-praised-empowering-women-academics|title=Staff praised for empowering women academics|website=imperial.ac.uk|access-date=14 July 2019}} Later in the year, he also won the Science Educator Award{{cite web|url=https://www.sfn.org/publications/latest-news/2019/10/19/society-for-neuroscience-presents-science-education-and-outreach-awards|title=Society for Neuroscience Presents Science Education and Outreach Awards|website=sfn.org|access-date=29 October 2019}} awarded from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), which is 'the world's largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and the nervous system'.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfn.org/about |title=About SfN|website=sfn.org|access-date=29 October 2019}}

In 2020 he won two additional educational awards, namely the President's Award for Excellence in Education awarded from Imperial College London{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191930/staff-praised-empowering-women-academics/|title=Imperial celebrates the 2020 winners of the President's Awards for Excellence|website=imperial.ac.uk|access-date=4 July 2020}} and the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology,{{cite web|url=https://www.aan.com/tools-and-resources/academic-neurologists-researchers/clerkship-and-course-director-resources2/teaching-and-innovation-awards/|title=Teaching and Education Awards|website=aan.com|access-date=4 July 2020}} thus winning his third Academy Award in four years. In the same year, he was also recognised as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

In 2021 he published Nobel Life,{{cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/nobel-life/nobel-life/0CDFBB20D8C60711F271372878FB56F0#|title=Nobel Life|date=June 2021|publisher=Cambridge University Press|access-date=20 February 2022|isbn=9781108974301}} a book edited by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and published by Cambridge University Press, which has been selected by Forbes as an honourable mention in The Best Higher Education Books Of 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/12/01/the-best-higher-education-books-of-2021/?sh=88d5fa1192fd|title=The Best Higher Education Books Of 2021|website=www.forbes.com|access-date=20 February 2022}}

In 2022 he authored The birth of modern neuroscience in Turin,{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-birth-of-modern-neuroscience-in-turin-9780190907587?cc=us&lang=en&|title=The birth of modern neuroscience in Turin|date=September 2022|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=28 March 2023|isbn=9780190907587}} favourably reviewed by Lancet Neurology, and won the Trainees in the Association for the Study of Medical Education (TASME) Mentorship Prize.{{cite web|url=https://www.asme.org.uk/news/tasme-mentorship-prize-2022-winner/ |title=TASME Mentorship Prize 2022 Winner|website=www.asme.org.uk|access-date=28 March 2023}} In 2024, he has won the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology for the second time, his fourth Academy Award, and also the Miriam Friedman Ben-David Award from the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE){{cite web|url=https://amee.org/winner-of-the-the-miriam-friedman-ben-david-award-for-2024// |title=Winner of The Miriam Friedman Ben-David Award for 2024|website= https://amee.org|access-date=13 July 2024}} and the Distinguished Neurology Teacher Award from the American Neurological Association, as the first European and youngest winner.

Sandrone's works also include the rediscovery of the manuscript of the first functional neuroimaging experiment,{{cite journal|title=Weighing brain activity with the balance: Angelo Mosso's original manuscripts come to light|first1=Stefano|last1=Sandrone|first2=Marco|last2=Bacigaluppi|first3=Marco R.|last3=Galloni|first4=Stefano F.|last4=Cappa|first5=Andrea|last5=Moro|first6=Marco|last6=Catani|first7=Massimo|last7=Filippi|first8=Martin M.|last8=Monti|first9=Daniela|last9=Perani|first10=Gianvito|last10=Martino|date=1 February 2014|journal=Brain|volume=137|issue=2|pages=621–633|doi=10.1093/brain/awt091|pmid = 23687118|doi-access=free|hdl=2318/141932|hdl-access=free}} which has been featured in several magazines and newspapers,{{cite journal |title=Neurophysiology: The man who bared the brain |journal=Nature |volume=521 |issue=7551 |date=May 2015 |pages= 160|doi=10.1038/521160a |last1=Abbott |first1=Alison |bibcode=2015Natur.521..160A |doi-access=free }}{{cite web |url= http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/05/21/a-machine-to-weigh-the-soul/#.U0xi3dxH1lI |title= A Machine to Weigh the Soul|access-date= 26 December 2017 |date=May 2013 |publisher= Discover}}

{{cite web |url= https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029430.500-the-man-who-weighed-thoughts/ | title= The man who weighed thoughts |access-date= 26 December 2017 |date=November 2013 |publisher= New Scientist}}

{{cite web |url= https://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340906546/the-machine-that-tried-to-scan-the-brain-in-1882 | title= The machine that tried to scan the brain in 1882 | access-date= 26 December 2017 |date=August 2014|publisher= NPR }}

{{cite web |url= https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-how-neuroscientists-1800s-studied-blood-flow-brain-180950404/ |title= Here's How Neuroscientists in the 1800s Studied Blood Flow in the Brain |access-date= 26 December 2017 |date=April 2014|publisher= Smithsonian.org }}{{cite news |url= http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/medizintechnik-vorlaeufer-von-mrt-misst-hirnaktivitaet-a-989930.html |title= Mit der Wippe die Gedanken wiegen |access-date= 26 December 2017 |date=September 2014|publisher= Spiegel.de|newspaper= Spiegel Online |last1= Stukenberg |first1= Timo }}

{{cite web |url= http://www.investigacionyciencia.es/revistas/mente-y-cerebro/el-tacto-666/anatoma-del-cerebro-14019 |title= Anatomía del cerebro |access-date= 26 December 2017 |date=May 2016|publisher= Investigación y Ciencia}}

and the narration of the '(delayed) history of the brain lymphatic system' in Nature Medicine.{{cite journal|title=A (delayed) history of the brain lymphatic system|first1=Stefano|last1=Sandrone|first2=Daniel|last2=Moreno Zambrano|first3=Jonathan|last3=Kipnis|first4=Jan|last4=van Gijn|date=4 April 2019|journal=Nature|volume=25|issue=2|pages=538–540|doi=10.1038/s41591-019-0417-3|pmid = 30948855|s2cid=96434900 }}

• 2014 Included in Wired magazine list of 'promising Italians under 35’{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2014/09/10/wired-under-35-stefano-sandrone/|title=Wired Under 35: Stefano Sandrone|website=wired.it|access-date=4 July 2020}}
• 2016 H. Richard Tyler Award for the History of Neurology presented by the American Academy of Neurology{{cite web|url=https://www.aan.com/education-and-research/research/awards-history/|title=Awards History|website=aan.com|access-date=4 July 2020}}
• 2016 Biennial Award for Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences presented by the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences
• 2019 Lawrence C. McHenry Award presented by the American Academy of Neurology
• 2019 Julia Higgins Award awarded from Imperial College London{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191930/staff-praised-empowering-women-academics/|title=Staff praised for empowering women academics|website=imperial.ac.uk|access-date=4 July 2020}}
• 2019 Science Educator Award awarded from the Society for Neuroscience
• 2020 President's Award for Excellence in Education awarded from Imperial College London
• 2020 A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology
• 2022 Trainees in the Association for the Study of Medical Education (TASME) Mentorship Prize {{cite web|url=https://www.asme.org.uk/news/tasme-mentorship-prize-2022-winner/ |title=TASME Mentorship Prize 2022 Winner|website=www.asme.org.uk|access-date=28 March 2023}}
• 2023 High Commendation for Development of the Educational Portfolio at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London for the Silver Jubilee
• 2024 A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology
• 2024 Miriam Friedman Ben-David Award from the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
• 2024 Distinguished Neurology Teacher Award from the American Neurological Association

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