Background
Garattini, Silvio was born on November 12, 1928 in Bergamo, Italy. Son of Aristotele and Anita (Viaro) Garattini.
Garattini, Silvio was born on November 12, 1928 in Bergamo, Italy. Son of Aristotele and Anita (Viaro) Garattini.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University Bergamo, 1948. Doctor of Medicine with honors, University Turin, Italy, 1954. Doctor Honoris Causa, Autonomous University Barcelona, Spain, 1983.
Doctor Honoris Causa, University Bialystock, Poland, 1984.
Assistant Institute Pharmacology, U. Milan, 1954-1958;
deputy director Institute Pharmacology, U. Milan, 1959-1962;
director, Mario Negri Institute Pharmacological Research, Milan, since 1963. Adjunct Professor biochemistry CUNY, 1971-1975. Lecturer in chemotherapy and pharmacology, 1955, 58.
Member commission on cancer chemotherapy International UnionAgainst Cancer, 1966. Committee medical biology National Research Council, 1977. Various committees Ministry of Science Research, Rome, 1983-1988.
Member Italian Drug Committee, 1993-1997, Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products. Speaker, member international medical and science committees, symposia universities. Researcher in field.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Faculty Pharmaceutical Medicine Royal Colleges Physicians. Member World Health Organization (expert advisory panel on cancer since 1973, science and technical advisory committee World Bank special program for research and training in tropical diseases Geneva chapter 1988), Mario Negri South Society (president since 1981), Italian Society Biological Psychiatry, Italian Society Cancerology, Italian Society Chemotheraphy (secretary 1955-1960), Italian Society Applied Pharmacol. Sciences, European Association Cancer Research, European Society Bio-chemical Pharmacology, American Chemical Society, British Pharmacological Society, Polish Society Pharmacology (Cavaliere Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur'Onore Francese 1984), Royal College Biological Psychiatry, many others.