Gerry Melino is Principal Investigator for the Function of the p53 family member p73 (https://centrotor.uniroma2.it/prof-gerry-melino/) 

Biography
Gerry Melino, MD (Rome), PhD (London), Dr Sci hc (St Petersburg), is Professor of Biochemistry, at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata. Member Accademia Lincei & Accademia Europaea. He is Founder & Editor-in-Chief of 3 journals, Cell Death Differentiation (www.nature.com/cdd) (impact factor 10.5), Cell Death Disease (www.nature.com/cddis) (IF 6.1), Cell Death DIscovery (www.nature.com/cddiscov) (IF 4.2), member of several other Editorial Boards and Scientific Advisor for several Governmental Institutions. His scientific interest (H-index 105; Citations 56000) focuses upon programmed cell death in epidermal and neural models, and in particular on the p53 family – p63 and p73, in cancer progression.

Representative Publications
Melino G. The Syren’s song (Concept: apoptosis). Nature. 2001. 412:23.
Melino G. Order must spring from chaos in Italian research. Nature. 2018. 556(7702):436.
Pieraccioli M, et al. ZNF281 inhibits neuronal differentiation and is a prognostic marker for neuroblastoma.
PNAS-USA. 2018;115(28):7356-7361.
Liu K, Lin L, Li Q, et al. Scd1 controls de novo beige fat biogenesis through succinate-dependent regulation of mitochondrial complex II. PNAS-USA. 2020;117(5):2462–2472.
Amelio I, et al. The C-terminus of p73 is essential for hippocampal development. PNAS-USA. 2020, in press.