Pietro De Camilli NAS, AAA&S, NAM is an Italian-American biologist and John Klingenstein Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine.
He then went to the United States and did his postdoctoral studies at Yale University with Paul Greengard.
[1][2] De Camilli is known for contributions that has been to demonstrate the crucial role of protein-lipid interactions and phosphoinositide metabolism in the control of membrane traffic at the synapse.
In 1990 he received the Max-Planck-Forschungspreis [de] together with Reinhard Jahn (at this time at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry).
[2] In 2019 he was awarded the Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine for lifetime achievement.