BIOGRAPHY
Full Professor of Microbiology and Virology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Padua. Degree in Medicine and Surgery with full marks and honors (1973), State examination (1974), ECFMG (1976) (licensed to practice medicine in the United States), Postgraduate Diploma in Oncology (1976) and in General Pathology (1979) with full marks and honors. Author of about three hundred publications in journals surveyed on international biomedicine databases as well as monographs and volumes. The articles since 2004 correspond to 114 with a total Impact Factor (IF) equal to 539.604, average IF 4.733. The publications mainly concern topics of Microbiology and Clinical, Molecular and Applied Virology (biotechnology); Antimicrobial and antitumor chemotherapy; Medical and experimental oncology; development of cellular and molecular therapies as well as design of vectors for gene transfer, vaccinology and gene therapy in oncology, infectious diseases and in genetic pathologies. Holder of patents and licenses for molecular diagnostics, production of anticancer drugs and viral vectors for gene therapy. Scientific consultant pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology spin-off companies. Referee of numerous international scientific journals; External examiner for the Ph.D. in Biochemistry (University of Kent), in Virology (University of London) and in Molecular Biology (University of Heidelberg); Evaluator of research projects for BIOMED 2, CNR, the National Institute of Health, the National Institute of Health, the Medical Research Council.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Microbiology and Clinical, Molecular and Applied Virology (biotechnology); Antimicrobial and antitumor chemotherapy; Medical and experimental oncology; development of cellular and molecular therapies as well as design of vectors for gene transfer, vaccinology and gene therapy in oncology, infectious diseases and in genetic pathologies
