Keynote Speaker
Emilio Giuseppe Ignazio Clementi

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Emilio Clementi gained his MD degree at the University of Milano (1988) and his PhD in Experimental Pharmacotherapy at the University of Brescia (1994). He has been Reader in Pharmacology at the University of Catanzaro, Italy (1992-1996), Research Fellow at the University College London (1996-1999) and then Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Calabria, Italy (1999-2005)

Currently full professor of Pharmacology at the University of Milano, he is Director of the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences and Head of the Pharmacovigilance & Clinical Research of the International Centre for Pesticides and Health Risk Prevention at the Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Hospital, University of Milano. He is also Editor in Chief of Pharmacological Research & Pharmacological Research Modern Chinese Medicine, published by Elsevier, Secretary General of The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR). He is a Member of the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Member in the National Italian Paediatric Ethics Committee.

Prof. Emilio’s research interests include pathophysiology of nitric oxide and its relevance in therapeutics, namely in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His involvement in clinical pharmacology has grown significantly since 2005, with the direction of a Clinical Pharmacology Unit, leading him to studies in pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics, with a specific interest in paediatric patients, on whom he runs a pharmacovigilance programme sponsored by the Italian Medicines Agency.

Prof. Emilio Clementi has a keen interest is music and musical performance, and he obtained his piano diploma and his MMus at the Conservatory of Music G. Verdi, Milano, with a specialization in harpsichord and baroque music performance.