Sergio Bonini

Professor of Internal Medicine at the Second University of Naples, Sergio Bonini is at present Research Associate at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Translational Pharmacology, Rome. From 2013 to 2017 he was Expert-on-Secondment, Advisory Function-Senior Medical Officer at the European Medicines Agency, where he is now National Expert. M.D. degree at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1971. Board certified in Allergology and Clinical Immunology (1972), Gastroenterology (1973) and Internal Medicine (1984). Research of Prof. Bonini has mainly focused on allergic and autoimmune diseases (Charles Blackley Awardee in 2010) as well as, under the mentorship of the Nobel Prize Professor Rita Levi Montalcini, on the role of Nerve Growth Factor in allergic inflammation and tissue remodelling. Scientific production of Prof. Bonini includes approx. 500 publications (more than 300 indexed by ISI ; H-index > 70). The most cited papers include the original description of a late-phase reaction in the eye after allergen provocation, the first report on the potential relevance of NGF in asthma and allergic inflammation, the description of genetic and environmental factors (infections, smoking, physical activity) influencing allergy phenotypes. Professor Bonini is listed among the 100 Top Italian Scientists/Clinical Sciences working in Italy and abroad (www.topitalianscientists.org) Prof. Bonini is Past-President of the Italian Medical Society in Great Britain (President 2016-2018), Past-President of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (President 1998-2001)) and Honorary member of the Rumenian Academy of Sciences and of the Belgian, Hungarian and Argentinian Societies of Allergology and Clinical Immunology. He is Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Embassy in London and has been part of several international (WHO, IAACI-WAO, EAACI, AAAAI, European Medicines Agency) and national (Ministry of Health, Italian Drug Agency) expert board panels. Co-founder of Allergy, he is co-editor of the BJCP Series on EMA Guidelines and editorial board member and/or referee of several international journals.