Background
Born on November 6, 1965 in Torino, Italy.
Born on November 6, 1965 in Torino, Italy.
Degree in Biological Sciences, University Turin, Italy, 1988 (110/110 with honour and mention. Prize Sgaravatti).
Post-university specializations: Bioethics.
Cours Universitaires de langue, lettres et civilisation françaises (Université de Paris Sorbonne), 1984 (with honour).
BIOETHICS UNIT
- Since 2004: Head of the Bioethics Unit of the ISS
COMMISSIONS, COMMITTEES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONARY APPOINTMENTS
1) Appointment from the Minister of the Health:
- Since 2011: Member of the Working Group of the Italian National Health Council “Platelet gel from placental blood”
- Since 2007: Member of the Committee on hematopoietic cord blood stem cells (Decree of the Minister of the Health, 20 February 2007)
2) Appointment from the Pontifical Academy for Life:
- Since 2011: Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life
- Since 2010: Member of the Working Group “Cord blood biobanks: ethical, juridical, social and cultural implications”
3) Appointment from the President of the ISS:
- Since 2016: Responsible for the “Ethics” area of the “Website of knowledge” of the ISS
- Since 2014: Representative of the ISS on the Medicines Utilization Monitoring Centre (Italian Medicines Agency)
- Since 2013: Delegate of the President of the ISS on the National Bioethics Committee
- Since 2011: Member of the Panel of Experts of the Italian National Health Council
- Since 2009: Member of the Commission for the Definition of Kidney Allocation Criteria (Italian National Transplant Centre)
- Since 2007: Member of the Ethics Committee of the General Hospital Fatebenefratelli
- Since 2006: Member of the National Commission for the Program of Crossover Kidney Transplant
- Since 2006: Member of the Interdepartmental Commission on Oncology of ISS
- Since 2005 to 2010: Member of the Ethics Committee of the Neurological Institute Casimiro Mondino
- Since 2005: Member of the Working Group on the living donor crossover kidney transplant (Italian National Transplant Centre)
- Since 2004: Member of the Ethics Committee of ISS (since 2014 also Vice-Chair)
- Since 2004: Member of the Ethics Committee of the Mediterranean Institute of Haematology
- Since 2004: Advisor of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the disciplinary area: Bioethics
4) Appointment from the President of the Joint Commission National Bioethics Committee - National Committee for Biosecurity, Biotechnologies and Life Sciences (Presidency of the Council of Ministers):
- Expert for the Joint Commission (2009-2010) (Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers 17 February 2009)
- Member of the Commission on standardized informed consent for the storage of biological samples in biobanks (2008-2009)
5) Appointment from the President of the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (now: National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development)(ENEA):
- Since 2003: Member of the Bioethics Committee of ENEA
6) Appointment from the Director of the Italian National Transplant Centre:
- Since 2009: Member of the Advisory Committee for the authorisation of autologous-dedicated conservation of cord blood (Decree of the Minister of the Health 18 November 2009; Decree of the Minister of the Health 23 November 2012)
- Since 2007: Member of the Permanent Technical Council for Transplant
7) Appointment from the President of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples:
- Since 2011: Member of the Ethics Committee of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
8) Appointment from the Director of the Italian National Blood Center:
- Since 2013: Member of the Working group on hyperimmune blood plasma
9) Other institutionary appointments:
- Since 2017. President of the Ethics Committee of the Project “Mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease” (University of Padua; European Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure in Medicine – EATRIS; ESPERITE)- Since 2016: Member of the “Ad hoc working group on the prohibition of making a financial gain from the human body” of the Council of Europe
- Since 2016: Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Register of the Region Lazio
- Since 2015: Expert of the Animal Welfare Monitoring Committee of the ISS
- Since 2015: Representative of the Ethics Committee of the ISS on the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
- Since 2015: Advisor on the Ethics Committee Lazio-2
- Since 2015: Member of the Ethics Committee for Scientific Research of the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA)
- Since 2013: Ethics adviser of the Front Door of the Italian Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure (IATRIS)
- Since 2012: Member of the Working Group “Disposal of Hematopoietic Stem Cells” of the Italian Society of Hemapheresis and Cell Manipulation (SIdEM)
- Since 2012: Member of the Ethics Committee of the Health Agency Rome-C
- Since 2012: Professor at the Master in “Professional responsibility of the physician and of the odontologist”, Justice and Health Association (Associazione Giustizia e Sanità) - Italian Supreme Court of Cassation
- Since 2011: Member of the Working Group on Ethical Issues of Alzheimer Europe
- Since 2011: Member of the Working Group “Proposal of a regulation for research biobanks and of criteria for sample donation” of the Italian Node of “BBMRI: Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure”
- Since 2011: Ethics Advisor of the project “The impact of DEmographic Changes on Infectious DisEases transmission and control in middle/low income countries, DECIDE” (European Research Council and Bocconi University, Dondena Centre)
- Since 2010: Member of the Advisory Board of the project “Italy and its regions”, Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia Treccani
- 2010: Member of the technical commission of the prize Alesini - Cittadinanzattiva - Amgen “Good practices in the patient-centred care”
- Since 2009: Member of the Advisory Board of “Clinical Trial Magnifier”
- 2009- 2010: Member of the International Advisory Board of the manual “Reviewing clinical trials: A guide for ethics committee” (Clinical Trials Centre, University of Hong Kong; Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Projects Protection Programs, Washington DC)
- Since 2000: Scientific director of courses of the ISS on the ethics of: clinical trials, public health, environmental and health risks