Mantovani Alberto MD

Alberto Mantovani is Scientific Director of Istituto Clinico Humanitas, President and founder of the Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca, and Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine at the State University of Milan. He graduated in 1973 with a degree in Medicine from the University of Milan and in 1976 he specialized in Oncology at the University of Pavia. He completed fellowships at the Laboratory of Immunology and Chemotherapy at the Mario Negri Institute in Milano, the Department of Tumor Immunology of the Chester Research Institute in Belmont (GB), and the Laboratory of Immunodiagnosis, NIH, Bethesda (USA). He has held held many different research and faculty positions at prominent institutions.

From 1979 to 1981 he was Senior investigator, Department of Tumor Immunology and Chemotherapy, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan. In 1981 he became Chief of the Laboratory of Immunology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri". From 1994 to 2001 he was full Professor of General Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy. He has also led the Department of Immunology and Cell Biology at the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan from 1996 to 2005. His research centers mainly on molecular regulation mechanisms of leukocyte infiltration. More specifically his attention is focused on the molecular function and regulation circuits of the inflammatory cytokines.