New Appointment: MBP Welcomes Dr. Maurizio De Pitta

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Maurizio De Pitta, Assistant Professor, to the Department of Medical Biophysics. We have provided some information about him below.

Dr. Maurizio De Pitta is a computational neuroscientist at the Krembil Research Institute and Principal Investigator of the Krembil Computational Neuroscience Hub. He earned his PhD from Tel Aviv University (Israel) and completed postdoctoral training under Nicolas Brunel at the University of Chicago (USA) as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. He established his first independent research group, funded by one of the prestigious Junior Leader Fellowships from la Caixa Foundation, at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics in Bilbao, Spain, before relocating to Canada in 2021.

Dr. De Pitta's research combines computational modeling, synthetic biology, machine learning, and translational neuroscience with the overarching aim of characterizing how neuron-glial cell interactions contribute to brain function in health and disease. A pioneer in computational glioscience, Dr. De Pitta is the lead author of the first graduate monograph dedicated to this discipline and an advocate for expanding theories of cognition to include the role of glial cells. His work offers critical insights into the mechanisms of neurological disorders and supports the development of novel diagnostics and therapeutic approaches that resolve neuron-glial interactions from genome to behavioral levels.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. De Pitta to the Department.