Scientific Board
Ludovico Baldessin
Personal Details Name: Profession: Ludovico Baldessin Chief Executive Officer of Edra S.p.A. Ti-linkedin Biography For 25 years Ludovico Baldessin has been anticipating the evolution of scenarios by applying innovative models to the Life Science, Media, Education sectors. After studies in management engineering, he develops innovative digital solutions with Equart Multimedia where he becomes a partner […]
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Personal Details Name: Profession: Walter Ricciardi Full Professor of Hygiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Ti-linkedin Biography Walter Ricciardi is Full Professor of Hygiene at the Faculty of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome). He is the Chair of the Mission Board for Cancer, European Commission, and the Chair of the Scientific Committee of […]
Read MoreMonica Di Luca
Personal Details Name: Profession: Monica Di Luca Professor of Pharmacology, University of Milan Ti-linkedin Biography Monica Di Luca has been Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Milan since 1999. She is at present the Director of Department of Excellence of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences of University of Milan. She is a member of the […]
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Beatrice Lorenzin
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Giorgio Racagni
Personal Details Name: Profession: Giorgio Racagni Full Professor of Pharmacology, University of Milan Biography From 1973 to 2017, Giorgio Racagni was Full Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Milan. He spent three years at the National Institute of Mental Health of Washington D.C. to conduct research […]
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Giuseppe Ippolito
Personal Details Name: Profession: Giuseppe Ippolito Director General Research and Health Innovation, Italian Ministry of Health Ti-linkedin Biography Giuseppe Ippolito is, since 2021, the Director General for Research and Health Innovation at the Italian Ministry of Health.For more than 20 years he was Scientific Director of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani” in […]
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Paola Testori Coggi
Paola Testori Coggi Paola Testori Coggi is Scientific Advisor of the Istituto Affari Internazionali and Health Ambassador of the Federated Innovation @MIND, Milano Innovation District. She is Member of the Italian Delegation to Horizon Europe-Cluster Health Programme Committee, and she has been Chair of the T20 Italy Task Force on Global health and Covid-19. Testori Coggi has been Director General for Health and Consumers of the European Commission until 2014.
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Dario Manfellotto
DARIO MANFELLOTTO Dario Manfellotto is Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Nephrology at Sapienza University of Rome and the Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Gemelli-Isola, Rome. He specialized in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Manfellotto is also the President of FADOI (Federazione delle Associazioni dei Dirigenti Ospedalieri Internisti) (2023-2025), and the Past President of the foundation (2020-2022). As a Scientific Journalist, Manfellotto has also been a WHO Consultant for Health Information and Education. He was the author of many scientific publications on national and international journals, mainly on high blood pressure, gestational hypertension, renal diseases, hydro-electrolytic and acid-base disorders, amyloidosis, genetics of complex diseases and rare diseases, mechanisms and treatment of thrombosis, health communication and education, health care organization, biomedical research methodology. Manfellotto has received the International Life Award for scientific communication by “The ageing society” (October 27, 2001).
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Anna Lisa Mandorino
Anna Lisa Mandorino Anna Lisa Mandorino is the General Secretary of Cittadinanzattiva. Graduated in Literature, she specialized in European Public Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility. In Cittadinanzattiva she worked first in Communication, then in the General Directorate, coordinating the activities and projects for the promotion of civic activism and participation. Within the organization she represents and with particular attention to public health, service, education and training, human and civil rights policies, she works to affirm new forms of civic action and governance of public processes, especially connected with the leading role of local communities, stakeholder involvement, institutional dialogue.
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Luca Pani
Luca Pani, MD, is an Italian and American Citizen, Full Professor of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy, and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Miami, USA. Luca is the Chief Advisor for Relmada Therapeutics; a late-stage biotech company focused on addressing diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), based in Coral Gables, FL, USA; the Chief Innovation and Regulatory Officer to Netramark an Artificial Intelligence technology company that support clinical trials analysis leveraging cutting-edge technology, based in Toronto, Canada. From 2017 to 2021, Luca has served as the Chief Scientific Officer of INPECO SA, the most significant world Lab Automation Company based in Novazzano, Switzerland. He was most recently appointed as a Member of the new Scientific Committee of the Human Technopole Foundation, Italy’s new research institute for life sciences whose mission is to improve human health and well-being, including focusing on healthy aging. Luca Pani is the coordinator of FACILITATE (FrAmework for ClinIcaL triaL particIpants’ daTA reutilization for a fully Transparent and Ethical ecosystem), the last IMI-2 project funded by the European Commission (Jan 2022- Dec 2025). As the former Director-General of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA, 2011-2016) and former member of the Board of Directors of the Committee for Human Medicines (CHMP) and the Scientific Advice Working Party (SAWP) for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in London (2010-2017), he was elected as Chair of the EU Telematics Committee (2013-2016) overlooking the EMA databases transition plan.
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Fabrizio Greco
Fabrizio Greco Fabrizio Greco is the Chief Executive Officer of AbbVie Italia and the President of the National Association for the Development of Biotechnology, for the period 2022-2025. Greco, who currently also holds the position of Chairman of the IAPG, the Italian American Pharmaceutical Group, previously held the role of Chief Executive Officer and General Manager Pharmaceutical Products of Abbott Italia, after having been CEO of Abbott Vascular Italia. He also worked in Guidant until becoming General Manager of the Portuguese affiliate and began his career in Eli Lilly Italy after graduating in Engineering at the University of Genoa and a second level Master’s degree in Business Administration at Bocconi.
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Francesco Dentali
Francesco Dentali Francesco Dentali is the National President of FADOI (Federazione delle Associazioni dei Dirigenti Ospedalieri Internisti) and he has been the past Director of the Clinical Research Department of FADOI (2018-2020). He is currently the Medical Director of the Ospedale di Circolo and Fondazione Macchi of Varese. From 2020 Dentali is the Director of the Struttura Complessa di Medicina Genrale and from 2022 he is the Director of the Medical Area Department at ASST Sette Laghi of Varese. Between 2020-2021, he took a course in Management Training as "Complex Structure Manager" at LIUC Business School and a second level Master’s degree in Management of Health Care Companies at EMMAS SDA Bocconi. During the Covid-19 years, he has been the Director of the Area Covid-19 and the Area of Observation and High Intensity Medicine. He was Clinical Research Fellow in Hematology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, in Canada. Dentali is also a member of National and International Societies for the study of thrombosis and hemostasis and in 2017-2018 he was the Secretary of SISET (Italian Society for the Study of Hemostasis and Thrombosis). Most of his numerous publications are focused on thrombosis and hemostasis. He was the winner of the Young Investigator Award of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine in 2006 and of the CSL Behring - Prof. Heimburger Award in 2009.
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Carmine Pinto
Carmine Pinto Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Naples, and board of Oncology and then of Hematology at the University of Bologna, Carmine Pinto is Director of Medical Oncology Unit of the AUSL-IRCCS of Reggio Emilia. Member of several national and international scientific societies, from November 2014 to October 2017 he was National President of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM), and currently President of the Federation of Italian Cooperative Oncology Groups (FICOG). Author of over 250 scientific publications in national and international journals and member of different scientific societies such as the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Reviewer of international research projects for Cancer Research Campaign (CRC), Clinical Trials Committee of the United Kingdom and the French Institute National du Cancer (INCa). He has been responsible for the conduction of over 90 clinical and translational studies.
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Sergio Abrignani
Sergio Abrignani Sergio Abrignani is the Scientific Director of the National Institute of Molecular Genetics of Milan, full Professor of Immunology and Immunopathology at the University of Milan and awardee of an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. He has twenty years of industrial research experience and ten years of academic research experience. He is member of several Advisory Boards, both in companies, in not-for-profit institutions and governmental bodies. His research activity is now mainly focused on the identification of new targets on intratumoral T lymphocytes for cancer immunotherapy.
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