Paolo Perseghin, Biography

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Paolo Perseghin received his medical degree from the University of Pavia Medical School, where he completed his clinical training in Clinical and Laboratory Haematology in 1985 and in Infectious Diseases in 1991. During the same period, he received training in both donor and therapeutic apheresis at The Blood Transfusion Center at IRCCS San Matteo in Pavia. He is a member of several scientific societies in the field of transfusion medicine, apheresis and cell therapies and serves as a reviewer for several high-ranked journals. He has received grants from Italian Health Authorities to support his research in donor and therapeutic apheresis and in the field of cellular therapies and regenerative medicine. He has teaching appointments in post-graduate specialization schools at the University of Milano-Bicocca School of Medicine, and since 2009, at the II° level master in “Stem cell transplantation and cellular therapies” at the University of Florence School of Medicine. Since 2009 he has also been a member of the ad-hoc committee (CNS/CNT) for the upgrading of the National Law in Transfusion Medicine. From 2007 to 2013 he served as the general secretary of the Italian Society of Apheresis and Cell Manipulation (SIDEM). Since 1997 he has been the head of the Therapeutic Apheresis Unit and Cryobiology Lab at San Gerardo Hospital in Monza, Italy, a JACIE accredited facility for both adult and pediatric autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and a staff member within the GMP cell factory “S. Verri” at the same institution. His main scientific interests in recent years have been to ascertain the effectiveness (and biologic effects) of extracorporeal photochemotherapy in patients with acute and chronic GvHD, the use of platelet lysate in regenerativemedicine, and the introduction of new devices in both donor and therapeutic apheresis. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and he has served as a speaker or chairman in national and international congresses and symposia.