Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division, “D. Cotugno” Hospital, Naples, Italy. Scientific Director of the Centro di Riferimento AIDS regione Campania [AIDS Reference Centre for the Campania Region]. Contracted professor of Immunology and Physiopathology of Infections at the II Università di Napoli and Professor of Immunology and Clinical Virology at the University of Messina. Visiting Scientist, in 1991 and 1993, at the Medical University of South Carolina, Immunology Diagnostics Division for studies on T-lymphocytes during HIV infections (Prof. M.F. La Via). Various study periods (1992, 1993 and 1994) with Patrice Debré and Brigitte Autran, on the relations of cytokines and cytofluorimetry in HIV infections, at “The Cellular and Tissue Immunology Laboratories of the Pitié Salpétrière Hospital”, in Paris. 1992 - winner of the “F. Torre” prize, organized by the Lega Italiana per la lotta alle malattie virali [Italian League for the fight against viral infections], for his study “The HIV virus’ expression in lymphocytes and macrophages”. Coordinator of various research projects on AIDS (Ist. Sup. Sanità [Health Higher Inst.] 1992, 1993), multiple sclerosis (AISM, 1995 and 1996), chronic viral hepatitis (The Campania Region, 1996-1998) and lastly on liver transplants (The Campania Region, 1998). Infectious diseases and immunology consultant for the Liver Transplant Centre (The Campania Region, 1998). Infectious diseases and immunology consultant for the Liver Transplant Centre, Cardarelli Hospital, Naples. Author of over 100 scientific papers, some on AIDS, published in: Journal of Infectious Diseases, La Presse Medicale, Journal of Neurology, Neurological Research, European Journal of Neurology, Journal of Hepatology, European Cytokine Network, I.J.C.I., etc. Author of three books on Medicine, immunogenic problems, HIV infections and clinical immunology, written together with La Via, Nicholson, Debré, Autran, Clerici, Perno, Conti, etc. Immunology expert of the editorial staff of IJCI - International Journal of Clinical Investigation and of American Association of Immunologists. Chairman and/or speaker at many national and international conferences.

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