Manfredi Tesauro

Manfredi Tesauro is a Full Professor of Internal Medicine at the University or Rome Tor Vergata. He obtained his medical degree from the University Medical School in Palermo, he completed his fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease in 2000 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. From 1998 to 2001 he has been Visiting Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, (USA), to investigate the mechanisms leading to vascular damage in conditions associated with increased atherosclerotic risk. Since 2002, he has served as Clinical Investigator at the Department of Internal Medicine of Tor Vergata University. He is a Diresctor of the Postgraduate School in Gerontology at the University of Rome \"Tor Vergata\" and Scientific Consultant at Italian Medicine Agency (AIFA) for Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. He has been recipient of several awards and grants, member of many scientific societies and serves as ad hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. His main research interest over the last decade has focused upon the investigation of the pathophysiological mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis in patients with diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome. He has authored of more than 130 publications in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals. (including PNAS, Circulation, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, ATVB, Hypertension, Journal of the American College of Cardiology etc etc).