Pr. Valentina Garibotto is head of division and associate professor at the Geneva University and Geneva University Hospital, with clinical and research experience in imaging molecular targets and a specific interest in neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr. Garibotto obtained her doctorate in medicine from the Genoa University Hospital in 2003, her specialization in nuclear medicine at the San Raffaele Hospital and Bicocca University in Milan in 2007 and the title of Privat Docent from the Geneva University in 2014. She has authored more than 200 full text peer reviewed articles (H index: 39) in the fields of clinical neuroimaging and nuclear medicine.
Her research group works on molecular imaging of neurodegenerative diseases, with a specific interest in causative and protecting factors and on novel therapeutic approaches. These research projects are mainly supported by the Swiss National Research foundation, the Velux Stiftung, the Schmidheiny and Aetas foundation.
She is Congress Chair Elected of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine and actively involved in a number of European initiatives fostering molecular imaging of cognitive disturbances, such as the European Alzheimer Disease Consortium PET, the European-Dementia with Lewy Body study group and the AMYPAD initiative. She’s teaching molecular imaging at the pregraduate and postgraduate level in national and international courses.