Manfredi Angelo Andrea Maria Professore associatoMedicineMED/16 - MEDS-09/C - Reumatologia

Associate Professor of Rheumatology

Head, Autoimmunity and Vascular Inflammation Unit, Division of Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells and Gene Therapy,  Istituto Scientifico H San Raffaele, DIBIT

Coordinator for Rheumatology, UO Medicina a Indirizzo Immunologico Clinico, Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Specialistica, Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele, Milano

 

PERSONAL DATA:

Place and date of birth: Milano, July 4th, 1961

Citizenship: Italian. Marital status: Married. Three children.

 

EDUCATION:

1989: Degree cum laude in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Milano.

1985: Member of the Italian College of Physicians and Surgeons.

1985: M.D. cum laude, University of Milano.

1979: High school diploma with maximum quotation marks (60/60), Classical Lyceum “Berchet” Milano.

 

SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC CAREER:

2004-date: Associate Professor, San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milano

2004-date: Head of the Autoimmunity and Vascular Inflammation Unit , Istituto Scientifico S. Raffaele, Milano

1998-date: Member and group leader, PIBIC, Istituto Scientifico H S.Raffaele, Milano.

1996: Visiting Scientist, Centre d’Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France.

1992: Visiting Scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Pharmacology, University ofMinnesota.

1992-date: Investigator, Istituto Scientifico H S. Raffaele, Milano, Second Department of Medicine and Laboratory of Immunology.

1988-1991: Post-doctoral Associate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108, USA.

1986-1987: Intern, Second Department of Internal Medicine and Laboratory of Immunology, Istituto Scientifico H S.Raffaele, Milano.

 

Prof. Manfredi is a member of the Società Italiana di Allergologia, Immunologia e Immunologia Clinica. He is an Associate Editor of Clinical & Experimental Immunolo and  of the board of reviewers of: American Journal of Pathology, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, Apoptosis, Arthritis & Rheumatism, Arthritis Care & Research, Autoimmunity, Biochemistry, Blood, British Journal of Cancer, British Journal of Pharmacology, Cancer Research, Cell Death & Differentiation, Clinical & Experimental Immunology, Clinical Cancer Research, Experimental Cell Research, European Journal of Histochemistry, European Journal of Immunolog

y, Immunology, International Journal of Cancer,Journal of Autoimmunity, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Immunology, Journal of Immunological Methods, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Journal of Leukocyte Biology, Journal of Neurochemistry, Journal of Neuroimmunology, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Nature Medicine, Reproductive Sciences,  Signal Transduction, Trends in Immunology.

Prof. Manfredi is a consultant and a grant reviewer for:

Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universita’ e della Ricerca (MIUR), Istituto Superiore di Sanità,  Ministero della Salute, for the Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca (CIVR),  Università degli studi di Padova, Università degli studi di Verona,  Arthritis Research Campaign (U.K.), Association for International Cancer Research (U.K.), MRC (U.K.), Welcome Trust (U.K.), French National Cancer Institute (INCa, France), United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (Jerusalem-Bethesda), EMBO fellowship organization, Austrian Science Fund (FWF, Austria), The Icelandic Research Fund (IRF, Reykjavìk, Iceland)

 

Papers of Prof. Manfredi have been quoted as “papers of outstanding interest” and “papers of special interest” of the Bibliography of the Current World Literature, Current Opinion in Immunology (1993, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008), Current Opinion in Microbiology (1999), Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension (1999 and 2007), Current Opinion in Rheumatology (2000).

 

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:

1. Innate response to primary inflammatory signals in human diseases, with attentino to autoimmune diseases and systemic vascultiis
2. Pathways regulating the clearance of apoptotic cells in autoimmunity and cancer

he is author or coathor of >160 articles that have been cited > 5800 times 1995, wiht an h index 40 (August 2013).