Piedmont Lorenzo

Biography

Lorenzo Piemonti, MD, born in Carate Brianza (MB), graduated with Lode at the University of Milan in 1994 and specializes in Endocrinology and Spatial Disease and in Microsurgery and Surgical Surgery at the University of Milan in 2000 and 2004, respectively. At the San Raffaele Institute (Milan, Italy) he is the Director of the Diabetes Research Institute, director of the Human Islet Transplantation Program ( http://www.sanraffaele.org/ ENGhome / research / divisions_centers_institutes_research_programs / ITP / index.html) . She also serves as Head of the Beta Cell Biology Unit (Diabetes Research Institute) and director of the Human Islet Processing Facility, as well as coordinator of the European Consortium for the Transplantation of the Islands (ECIT,http://ecit.drisanraffaele.org/en/islet-transplatntation/index.html). Lorenzo Piemotni is professor of Endocrinology at the San Raffaele Health University of Milan and Honorary Visiting Professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. Its area of ​​expertise is mainly focused on diabetes and pancreatitis. He studied the role of innate immunity in island cell biology (especially in the human model of pancreatic islet transplantation) and pancreatic cancer biology (in particular the role of chemokines and chemokine receptor systems in inducing liver cancer, leukocyte infiltration). In addition, his research interests include replacement of beta cells, immune tolerance induction strategies, dendritic cell biology, and stem cells. Lorenzo Piemonti is the author of a total of 158 original articles published in peer-reviewed journals in PubMed). h-index (06/07/2017): 38 Web of Science; 41 Scopus; 47 Google Scholar .. Considering the period 2001-2017 Lorenzo Piemonti is the author of a total of 135 original articles published in peer-reviewed journals for an impact factor of 779,673 (average impact factor: 5.775)

Research Interest

Medicine and Surgery