Maria Giovanna Trivella, M.D, Cardiologist, is a Senior Investigator of Italian National Research Council (CNR), Head of Experimental Laboratory of CNR and Experimental Surgery Laboratory, a joint cooperation unit of CNR and Pisa University. Responsible of research unit for “Icaros” a CNR strategic project on Artificial Heart (1992-93). Member of working group on “In vivo testing of Mechanical Circulatory Support Systems” Concerted Action on Heart Assist and Replacement- BIOMED I (1993-96). Responsible of research units for the following projects of national strategic program New Medical Engineering (2002-06): i) termoablation devices (RF) on oncology; ii) biotechnologies applied to solid cancers (plasmafiltration pumps); iii) endovascular devices, laser assisted surgery; iv) experimental testing of cardiopulmonary assist devices on AMI models. She collaborated to the Eu proj NetMED Virtual Institute on Micromechatronics for Biomedical Industry. Application specialist for the FP6 Biosensing textile for health management (Biotex Project). Since 2003 she is biomedicine expert in the SABA network, an interdisciplinary network for sensors applications in agriculture, foods, environment and biomedicine funded by the Tuscany Region. She worked on preclinical validation of centrifugal pumps for extracorporeal circulation and she is doing the experimental validation of new coronary stents based on genetic therapy. Participant in the bilateral project FIRB Italy–Canada, CNR e IBD-NRC, “New imaging techniques for the understanding of cardiac disease mechanisms and their management”. Awarded in 2007 by the European Science Foundation for the ex ploratory workshop “Molecular signaling in cardiovascular and oncological disease: similar and shared pathways”, she has been enrolled as European Science Foundation peer reviewer for 2008-10. Participant to the FP7 ARTreat Project, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT 2008). Oberdan Parodi, M.D, Director of CNR Clinical Physiology Institute (IFC) – Milan; Since 1997: Director Struttura Complessa IFC CNR, Cardiovascular Department, Ospedale Niguarda, Milan. Principal investigator of numerous CNR research projects. Responsible for the CNR National Project “Malattie Cardiopolmonari”. Coordinator of European Community projects: Human Capital and Mobility 1995-1997; PACOMIP Esprit-Capri 1996-1998; end-user CaRDIS, GROWTH 2000, FP5 (2000-2003); scientific coordinator of STREP VPH2 (IC T of FP7), Scientific manager and coordinator of RU of IP ARTreat (ICT of FP7). Principal investigator of targeted research projects, Italian Health Ministry 1996, 1999, 2001, 2007 (APICE). Coordinator of CADASIL Project, AIFA 2006. Member of numerous Editorial Boards. Member of the EC PET Task Force. Member of MIUR “Albo dei Revisori”. Main fields of interest: heart failure, coronary artery disease, cardiac metabolism, pharmacological trials, coronary microcirculation and blood flow in man, cardiac transplantation, biomarkers, cardiac imaging. Author of more than 300 original papers, reviews and book chapters. GianFranco Ferrari MSc, PhD, Senior R esearcher Institute of Clinical Physiology CNR, received his degree in Electronic Engineering – Automatic Controls in 1977 at Rome University “La Sapienza”. He received in 1981 the post-degree Specialization in Bioengineering at the same University. Finally, got his PhD developing a work on circulatory modelling and its applications at the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He created and directed the Department of Cardiovascular Engineering at the Institute of Biomedical Technologies of Italian National Council for Research (CNR). He is now a Senior Researcher at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology – Section of Rome. He is a member of the European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO), of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine (ESEM – up to 2005), of the Scientific Council of the International Centre of Biocybernetics (ICB) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Editorial Board of the Journals Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering and of the Open Biomedical Engineering Journal.
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