Piero Marchetti

Director of the Unit: Endocrinology and Metabolism of Organ and Cellular Transplantation, AOUP – Pisa, July 2008 – to date Full Professor of Endocrinology, University of Pisa, Nov. 2016 to date Associate Professor of Endocrinology, University of Pisa, 2004-Oct. 2016 Assistant Medical Director, Metabolic Unit, Cisanello Hospital, 1996-to date Head of the Islet Research Laboratory, Metabolic Unit, Cisanello Hospital, 1992-to date Senior Scientist, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, 1992-2004 Consultant Professor in Metabolic Diseases, Medical School, University of Pisa, 1994-1997 Piero Marchetti’s main areas of interest include the pathophysiology of pancreatic beta-cells, focusing on the mechanisms leading to beta-cell dysfunction and death in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, the role of pancreas and islet transplantation in the cure of Type 1 diabetes, and the impact of diabetes in renal or liver graft recipients. He has published widely in these fields (as documented by 439 full articles retrievable from PubMed/Scopus, with more than 18,000 citations and an official H index of 68), has been invited to deliver numerous lectures at national and international meetings, has served as reviewer for more than 60 journals and has acted as referee in the framework of funding calls from the EC, NIH, JDRF and EFSD. He has been/is involved, in collaboration with national and international leading scientists, in several research projects funded by the Italian Government, EC, EASD/EFSD, JDRF and other agencies.