Mario Pazzagli

Biography

Biologist, Ph.D. of the University of Florence, Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, at the Dept of Clinical Physiopathology, Univ. of Florence. International Experiences. Visiting Scientist at the Dept. of Hormone Research, at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) 1979-1980; N.I.H. (Bethesda, USA): Visiting Scientist (Dr. D. Rodbard at NICHD) Aug.-Nov. 1981; Consultant at the Max-Planck Institute (Kninische-Forschungsgruppe fur Reproduktionsmedizin, Univ. of Munster, FRG) Prof. E. Nieschlag, 1983. Principal investigator of a WHO project on the development of a luminescent immunoassay for hLH hormone for use in developing countries at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Human Reproduction at the Karolinska Institute of Stockholm (Prof. S. Cekan) 1987-1988. Visiting Professor at the Texas A & M University (College Station, Texas, USA) 1990-91. Scientific activities. Scientific Secretariat of the International Symposium" Luminescent assays: perspectives in Endocrinology and Clinical Chemistry"; Florence 1981; Scientific Secretariat of the Vth Inter. Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence; Florence 1988; President of the VIIIth Inter. Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence; Bologna 1997; Member of the scientific committee of the IFCC-Worldlab 99 Congress. National and International Activities Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, President of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry (Sibioc) in 1997; Councillor of the International Society of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence; Italian representative of the European Commission for the Clinical Chemist Register (EC4RC); Member of the Executive Board of the EC4, Chairman of the EC4-Project Group: European EQA Scheme in Molecular Diagnostics. Member of the IFCC-C-MD commission and Advisor of the CLSI Committee on Molecular Methods. Member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology. European Projects: Co-ordinator of the EU projects “The Da Vinci-Linnaeus-Darwin Initiative” Contract HPRP-CT-2001-00010, Co-ordinator of the EU projects “Multi-National External Quality Assay (EQA) Programmes in Clinical Molecular Diagnostics based on Performance and Interpretation of PCR assay methods including dissemination and training”, contract LSH n. 504842), Partner of the EU Project SPIDIA on standardization of the Pre-analytical Phase (contract n. 222916)

Research Interest

Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology