Degree in Medicine.
Specialty in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine.
Extensive experience on major pandemics, specifically on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected diseases.
Former President of the International AIDS Society [IAS]. Co-chair of the International Conference in Durban, South Africa, 2000.
Member of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria, and Member of the Technical Revie Board (TRP): Chair of numerous WHO therapeutic guidelines for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Former director of the Department of Pharmacology of the Italian National Institute of
Health [ISS], and of the Italian National Center for Global Health.
Former President of the Italian Medicines Agency.
Scientific advisor of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Ministry of Finances and of the Ministry of Health, Currently Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Catholic University of Rome, and member of the Program Committee of Horizon Europe ( Health Cluster - 2021-2027).
