Recent News from the IFCC Executive Board
Nomination of Professor Maurizio Ferrari as
Chair of the Education and Management Division
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Maurizio Ferrari, M.D., is Full
Professor of Clinical Pathology, University Vita-Salute San
Raffaele, Director of Clinical Molecular Biology and Cytogenetics
Laboratory (from 1997), and Head of Genomic Unit for the Diagnosis
of Human Pathologies, Center for Translational Genomics and
Bioinformatics, IRCCS San Raffaele, Milan, Italy (from 1988).
He received his Degree in Medicine
and Surgery with full marks at the Milano University in 1974,
Specialization in Pediatrics at the Milan University in 1977,
Specialization in Hematology at the Milan University in 1980 and
Specialization in Medical Genetics at the Catania University in
1991. He was Post-doc at Hospital Paul Brousse, Villejuif,Paris in
1975 and Honorary Registrar in Haematology at University College
Hospital, London in 1979. He served as Assistant at the Laboratory
of Clinical Research, Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, Milan
(1975-1987), then as Vice-Director of Clinical Chemistry
Laboratory, Chief of Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory and Prenatal
Diagnosis Service, IRCCS H. San Raffaele, Milan(1988-1997). He was
Scientific Coordinator of Clinical Research, IRCCS H San Raffaele,
Milan (1996-1999), and Chairman of Committee on Clinical Molecular
Biology Curriculum (C-CMBC) of IFCC (2002-2007).
He was member of the Education and
Management Division (EMD) of IFCC (from 2008), member of IFCC Task
Force on Pharmacogenetics (IFCC TF-PG, 2008), advisor of CLSI
Committee on Molecular Methods, and National partner of European
Molecular Genetics Quality Network (EMQN). He was Co-President of
the International IFCC-WordLab Congress (Firenze 1999) and Chairman
of the Scientific Committee of the 1st International Congress of
Clinical Molecular Biology (CMB) (Firenze 1999).
He received in 2004 the IFCC-Abbott
Award for significant contributions in molecular diagnostics.
His scientific interests are
oriented mainly on molecular diagnostic methods, nucleic acid
circulating in maternal plasma, molecular studies of several
genetic pathologies as eye diseases, neurological diseases, cardiac
arrhythmia diseases, iron metabolism and haematological diseases.
He developed methods for DNA analysis as multiplex PCR and
capillary electrophoresis also in a temporal thermal gradient, set
up a method involving the ligase chain reaction (LCR) and developed
a new method known as double-gradient DGGE (DG-DGGE) for the
identification of unknown mutations. In the last 4-5 years he has
focused his research activity on the detection of foetal DNA in
maternal plasma for non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and for
diagnostic application in the genetic and oncology field. At
present his research is focused on the development of diagnostic
tests with the application of microelectronic chip technology and
next generation sequencing.
He is author of 774 publications:
peer reviewed journals: 194, other journals: 63, book: 1, chapter's
book: 45 and 471 abstracts at International and National
Congress.