Carlo Patrono

Carlo Patrono, MD is Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, ltaly and at the Pere I man School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Patrono's main research interest is in the study of platelet acfivation and innibition in atbcrothrombosis and colorectal cancer. His research has contributed characterizi_ng the human pharmacology of aspirin as an inhibitor of platelet COX-1, and providing the basis for the development of low-dose aspirin as an antithrombotic agent. He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians, Royal College of Physicians, Academia Europaea and Accademia dei Lincei. He shared with Dr. Garret FitzGerald the 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique, awarded by the lnstitut de France, for his work on low-dose aspirin. He is a Section Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal. Dr. Patrono has published aver 250 research articles with aver 70,000 citatians and an h-index af 107.