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Advisory Board Camillo Ricordi, Professor expert in trasplants and diabetes, is member of Barilla CFN Advisory Board
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Recognized in the field as one of the world’s foremost scientists in the field of cellular transplants, Ricordi invented the process that has made it possible to isolate human pancreas insulin-producing cells and executed the first series of clinical transplants of pancreatic islets which have shown promising results in the treatment of diabetes.
Camillo Ricordi is Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Miami. He is also Chief of the Cellular Transplant Division and of the Department of Surgery and Scientific Director and Chief Academic Officer of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Since 2007, Camillo Ricordi has held the position of Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and at the Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm.
Professor Ricordi was President of the Cell Transplant Society (1992-94), co-founder of the National Diabetes Research Coalition (and President in 1997), and President (1999-2001) of the International Association for Pancreas and Islet Transplantation (IPITA). He is currently a member of the world’s foremost bodies in his field of specialization.
He has received numerous awards and honors over the course of his career in many different parts of the world. He has been a member of the editorial committees of various scientific journals and has authored over 500 publications. As an inventor he has seven patents to his credit.
Barbara Buchner is Director, Climate Policy Initiative of Venice. Up to 2009 she was an analyst at the International Energy Agency of Paris (IEA), where she focused on the Kyoto Protocol and studied different possible approaches to the greenhouse effect.
