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Fabrizio De Ponti

Full Professor

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Academic discipline: BIO/14 Pharmacology

Curriculum vitae

Present Position: Full Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

Dean of the School of Medicine - University of Bologna (2015-2018)

Degrees:

- Degree in Medicine and Surgery cum Laude (M.D.), University of Pavia, Italy

- Dottore di Ricerca in Farmacologia e Tossicologia (equivalent to Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology), University of Turin, Italy

- Specialization in Pharmacology (subspecialty: Clinical Pharmacology)  cum Laude, University of Pavia, Italy

- Degree in Pharmacy cum Laude (Pharm.D.), University of Pavia, Italy

Other Examinations:

Italian State Examination to obtain the License to practise Medicine and Surgery

Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences (U.S.A.)

English Language Examinations:

Test of English as a Foreign Language (U.S.A.)

Cambridge Proficiency Examination (U.K., Grade A)

Professional Experience:

-   Externship in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland: September 1982.

-   Internship in the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Section of Pharmacology, University of Pavia, Italy, October 1982 - July 1983.

-   Research Fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Section of Pharmacology, University of Pavia, Italy, July 1983 - February 1985; Supervisor: Prof. A. Crema.

-   Research Fellow in the Gastroenterology Unit, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN, U.S.A., March 1985 - February 1986; Supervisor: Prof. J.-R. Malagelada.

-   Research Fellow enrolled in a Ph.D. Program in Pharmacology and Toxicology (subspecialty: Gastrointestinal Pharmacology) in the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Pavia, Italy, 1986 - 1990; Supervisor: Prof. A. Crema.

-   Visiting Scientist at the Digestive System Research Unit, Gastroenterology Department (Prof. J.-R. Malagelada), Hospital General Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, March 1991.

-   Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Pavia, Italy, 1991-1998

-   Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Bologna, Italy, 1998-2004

Main Research Interests:

Clinical Pharmacology

- Translating clinical research into clinical practice (appropriate use of medicines)

- Regulatory pharmacology

- The drug-induced long QT syndrome

- Drug-induced liver injury (DILI)

Basic Pharmacology

- Plasticity in the enteric nervous system

- Mechanism in the drug-induced long QT syndrome

Funding (2002-present):

University of Bologna; Italian Ministry of Health; Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA); European Commission (FP7)

Appointment at International Agencies:

Member of the list of experts appointed by the Italian Ministry of Health at the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), London

Appointment at the Italian Ministry of Health:

External Expert at the Commissione Unica del Farmaco: Mutual Recognition Procedures (2001-2004)

Appointments at the Italian Medicines Agency

- Member of the Commission for Mutual Recognition Procedures (2004)

- Member of the Working  Group on Therapeutic Innovation (2006)

- Member of the Evaluation and Authorization Committee - national marketing authorization procedures (2010)

- Member of the Secretariat for Research and Clinical Trials (2016-present)

Appointment at the Regione Emilia-Romagna Local Health  Authority:

Member of the Expert Group on Rare Diseases (2004-2008)

Appointments In Ethics Committees:

- Institutional Review Board of the Policlinico S. Orsola Malpighi (Bologna, Italy): 1999-2009 (as Chairman 2005-2009)

- Institutional Review Board of the Hospital of the Province of Lodi (Lodi, Italy): 1994-2013

- Institutional Review Board of the Piacenza Local Health Authority (Chairman: 2013-2017)

- Institutional Review Board of the Cremona-Mantova-Lodi Area (2013-2016)

- Institutional Review Board "Valle Padana" - Cremona - Italy (2017-2019)

Society Memberships (in parentheses, the year of election):

-   Mayo Alumni Association, Rochester, MN, U.S.A. (1986)

-   Italian Pharmacological Society (SIF) (1988)

-   Italian Group for the Study of Digestive Tract Motility (GISMAD) (1988)

 - Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE) (1989)

-   Functional Brain-Gut Research Group (U.S.A.) (1992)

-   Italian Association of Immunopharmacology (1992)

-   The Calcium Club (1993)

-   American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) (1993)

-   Italian Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences (AISAL) (1994)

-   European Biomedical Research Association, Italian Section (1998)

-   Drug Utilization Research Group (2003)

Peer review of Grant Applications:

- The Wellcome Trust (London, UK)

- European Commission (Bruxelles, BE): FP7-HEALTH; HORIZON 2020

- Research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Serbia

- The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

- National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs, UK)

- Austrian Science Fund

- Italian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

- The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation (Los Angeles, CA, USA)