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Our biennial conference is a great opportunity to hear from leading biomedical researchers across a range of specialties.  By coming together discuss the latest international data, we can enhance understanding, build stronger networks and inspire new ideas.

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2015 Conference Speakers

The International Aspirin Foundation Scientific Conference in 2015 attracts prestigious speakers from all over the world.

Peterelwood

Prof Peter Elwood

Peter Elwood

Professor

Bleeding attributable to aspirin: I continue to monitor the literature for evidence on bleeding attributable to aspirin and I become ever more convinced that the risk and the seriousness of a bleed is grossly exaggerated. I have had papers on this refused, but one editorial has been published (Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2014;10:1-3).

Colorectal Cancer Screening and a role for aspirin: I believe that it is for colon cancer that aspirin will first become accepted by our clinical colleagues and by policy makers. I further believe that aspirin alongside colorectal screening is highly attractive ethically and economically.

Last year we published a paper with the above title. I am now doing what I can to stimulate the interest of colleagues locally and I have written a letter summarising the risks, benefits and ethical issues to the chair of the UK National Screening Committee.

Aspirin and cancer: I am active locally in doing what I can to get clinicians, and a very large charity in Wales, to recognise the likely value of aspirin used as an adjunct treatment of cancer. The discussions I have had so far focus on prostate and colon cancer.

A web site on aspirin prophylaxis. We already have a video on YouTube (http://youtu.be/yVCs0wxp_Vc). We are now working on a web site.

Natural Salicylates: We are doing a pre-pilot study of salicylates in urine samples stored for many years. If salicylates can be detected we hope this may open up a way to test the prediction of cancer by fruit and veg consumption.

Gaziano

Prof Mike Gaziano

Mike Gaziano

Professor

I am a chronic disease epidemiologist. I have a particular interest in the roles that individual lifestyle choices (diet, exercise, smoking), metabolic factors (obesity, high cholesterol, and hypertension), and biochemical and genetic markers play on the risk of coronary artery disease and stroke. Also of interest is the impact that vascular disease has on other organ systems, including cognitive dysfunction and renal disease.

Recently, I have initiated a number of research projects to investigate the diverse nature of atherosclerosis and I serve as the director of the Geriatric Research and Education Center (GRECC) at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

Chan

Dr Andrew T. Chan

Andrew T. Chan

Doctor

Dr. Andrew T. Chan is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) with a clinical specialty in familial gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. He is Chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit and the Program Director for gastroenterology training at MGH. His research focus is in clinical and translational epidemiology of colorectal cancer, with a focus on chemoprevention with aspirin.

Joan Clária

Joan Clária

Joan Clária

Joan Clària is currently a Senior Consultant at the Clinical Laboratory Service: Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. He is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Physiological Sciences I at the School of Medicine of the University of Barcelona. He was trained as a specialist in Clinical Biochemistry and initiated his scientific career at the Liver Unit of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. From 1993 to 1996 he performed his post-doctoral studies as a Fulbright scholar at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA) with Professor Charles N. Serhan, a leading scientist in the resolution of inflammation. He has also been a Visiting Scientist at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) (2001) and The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) (2007) and a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine (Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School) (Boston, MA) (2010-2011). His laboratory is mainly interested in the study of lipid mediators implicated in the resolution of inflammation, with a special emphasis on the role of specialized pro-resolving mediators in obesity-associated liver complications.

Andrew Freedman

Dr Andrew Freedman

Andrew Freedman

Doctor

Reader and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Cardiff University and University Hospital of Wales. He qualified in Medicine from Cambridge University & St Thomas’ Hospital in 1980, and subsequently trained in Infectious Diseases at St George’s Hospital, London and Harvard Medical School, USA, before coming to Cardiff in 1994. His research interests include the effects of HIV on bone marrow and thymic function. He is a trustee of the British HIV Association and chair of its Audit & Standards sub-committee, and a previous member of the DH Expert Advisory Group on AIDS

Grahamhughes

Prof Graham R V Hughes

Graham R V Hughes

Professor

Professor Graham Hughes trained at The London Hospital. In 1969-70, he spent 2 years with Professor Charles Christian in New York working on the introduction of anti-DNA assays in lupus.

In 1971 he set up Europe’s first dedicated lupus clinic.

In 1983 he described the antiphospholipid syndrome (Hughes Syndrome).

Professor Hughes has published widely on lupus and connective tissue diseases, and has published 21 books. He is Founder and Editor of the international journal ‘LUPUS’, now in its 23rd year.

His honours include the ILAR International Prize for Rheumatology Research,
and Docteur Honoris Causa in the Universities of Marseille and Barcelona.

Professor Hughes is currently Head of The London Lupus Centre, London Bridge Hospital (www.thelondonlupuscentre.com)

Angellanas

Angel Lanas,
MD

Angel Lanas

MD

Angel Lanas is Professor of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza, Vice-Dean for Research Affairs at the Medical School of Medicine University of Zaragoza, Chairman of the Digestive Diseases Service at the University Hospital “Lozano Blesa” of Zaragoza, Spain and Scientific Director of the Aragón Health Research Institute.

Professor Angel Lanas received his medical degree from the University of Zaragoza, Spain in 1984 and did his postgraduate training in internal medicine-gastroenterology at the University Hospital at Zaragoza and was visiting professor to the Department of Gastroenterology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama, USA since November 1989 to December 1991, where he worked with Professor Basil Hirschowitz. Professor Lanas joined the faculty at University of Zaragoza in 1992.

Among other associations he is member and International Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, member of the General Assembly of the United European Gastroenterology Federation and the Spanish Association of Gastroenterology (AEG). He was president of the AEG for 4 years and now is the President of the AEG Foundation.

Dr. Lanas is actively involved in both clinical and basic investigation re

Paolapatrignani

Paola Patrignani, PHD

Paola Patrignani

PHD

Paola Patrignani was graduated at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, “La Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy). Then, she followed a doctoral training in Pharmacology, at Catholic University of Rome, Italy. She worked for 2 years as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Le Centre Hospitalier of Laval University (Quebec, Canada) and at the Department of Pharmacology of Merck Frosst (Kirkland, Quebec, Canada). She continued her academic career at “G. d’ Annunzio” University, School of Medicine, Chieti, Italy, where she is currently Professor of Pharmacology and Head of the Research Unit of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics of eicosanoids at the Center of Excellence on Aging (CeSI). In 2009 she was Guest professor of Pharmacology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany). She is a member of the Italian Society of Pharmacology and she received the Upjohn Award (1981) and the “Henry Christian” Award (1991). In 2013, she received a special prize awarded by the Committee for the Promotion of Female Entrepreneurship of Abruzzo Region (Italy).

Her scientific activity is documented by 150 peer-reviewed publications in international journals ranked in the Journal Citation Reports, and 21 chapters in national-international books. Her cumulative citation index is 6797: the h index is 42.

Short statements of expertise:

  • Her research focuses on the study of the role of eicosanoids in inflammation, cancer and cardiovascular disease.
  • She has contributed to the development of biomarkers predictive of the impact of NSAIDs on COX-1 and COX-2 activities in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo which have been essential to read-out the clinical consequences of selective and nonselective inhibition of COX-isozymes in humans.
  • Her recent studies have allowed to clarify the determinants of NSAID toxicity for the gastrointestinal and cardiovascular systems which will be important for the development of personalized treatments in humans.
  • She is performing an intense research activity with the aim of identifying the mechanisms of the anti-tumorigenic effects of antiplatelet agents, with particular interest in clarifying the mechanism of action of aspirin. To realize these aims her research group is integrating basic and clinical research in different biological systems using the “Omics” approach.
CarloPatrono

Prof Carlo Patrono

Carlo Patrono

Professor

Carlo Patrono, MD, is Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, Italy and at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. Dr. Patrono trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow in New York with the late Solomon Berson and Nobel Laureate Rosalyn Yalow.

Prof. Patrono’s main research interest is in the study of platelet activation and inhibition in atherothrombosis and colorectal cancer.

His research has characterized the human pharmacology of aspirin as an inhibitor of platelet COX-1 and provided the basis for the development of low-dose aspirin as an antithrombotic agent. During the past decade Prof. Patrono contributed to characterizing the human pharmacology of COX-2 inhibitors and evaluating their cardiovascular effects in different clinical settings.
He serves on the editorial board of the American Heart Association’s Journals, Circulation and Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, and is a Section Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

He has been elected to membership in scientific societies, including the Association of American Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians, the European Society of Cardiology, the Academia Europaea and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

He has received the Alexander B. Gutman award from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the Distinguished Award in Neuroscience from the Louisiana State University, the 1998 International Aspirin® Award from Bayer AG, the 2007 John Vane Award from the William Harvey Research Institute of the University of London, the 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award of the Eicosanoid Research Foundation, the 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique of the Institut de France, and the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Prof. Patrono has published over 200 research articles with an h index of 86.

Rothwell

Prof Peter M Rothwell

Peter M Rothwell

Professor

Action Research Professor of Neurology, Director of the Stroke Prevention Research Unit, University of Oxford

Peter Rothwell is the Action Research Professor of Neurology in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford. He qualified in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1987 and after completing his early postgraduate clinical training he moved to Oxford as Clinical Lecturer in Neurology in 1996. He was awarded an MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship in 1999 and set up the Stroke Prevention Research Unit in 2000, which now employs over 40 research staff.

He was awarded Professor of Clinical Neurology in 2004 and was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008, a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator in 2009 and a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator in 2011. He has published over 400 scientific papers and several books. His research interests include primary and secondary prevention of stroke, the effects of blood pressure on the brain, and the risks and benefits of aspirin.

He is clinically active, working as a Consultant Neurologist for the Oxford University Hospitals Trust and contributing to clinical services for general neurology and stroke prevention. He has received several awards for other areas of his research, including the Inaugural British Medical Journal Award for Outstanding Contribution to Clinical Research (2009), the Foulkes Foundation Medal, Academy of Medical Sciences (2009), the World Stroke Organisation President’s Biennial Award for Outstanding Research (2010), a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (2011), the Kinmonth Medal, Royal College of Surgeons (2012), the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education (2013) and The Inaugural International Aspirin Foundation Senior Scientific Award (2014).

Karsten Schrör

Prof. Dr. Karsten Schrör

Karsten Schrör

Professor Doctor

Prof. Dr. Karsten Schrör
Institut für Pharmakologie und Klinische Pharmakologie
Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf

Education:

1961 – 1967 Medicine, Universität Halle/Wittenberg
1967 – 1972 Pharmacology, Universität Halle/Wittenberg

External residencies:

Wellcome Research Laboratories (UK); Supervisor: Sir John R. Vane, Department of Physiology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia (USA); Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Lefer, Visiting Professor Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston (USA) (Prof. P.V. Halushka), Visiting Professor Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Texas Medical Center, Houston (USA) (Prof. K.K. Wu)

Positions held

1967 – 1978 Research Assistant, Departments of Pharmacology, Universities Halle/Wittenberg, Mainz, Köln
1979 – 1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University Köln
1984 – 1986 Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University Köln
1986 – 2010 Professor of Pharmacology and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
2003 – 2006 Chairman of the Board, Working Group of the Chairmen of Departments of Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at German Speaking Universities
2005/2010 Chairman of the German Society for Pharmacology
2007 – 2010 President of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology (DGPT)
Since 2012 Chairman of the European Platelet Academy, member since 2007
1992 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (National Academy of Sciences)
2012 Schmiedeberg-Lifetime-Achievement-Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie for Excellence in Science

Hungarian Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology (Honorary Member)
National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan (Scientific Advisory Board Member)

Service in Editorial Boards (selected)

1988 – 1992 Eicosanoids (Managing Editor)
1980 – 2000 Naunyn Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology
1984 – 2002 European Journal of Pharmacology (Consultant Editor)
1984 – 2004 Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
2002 – 2006 Thrombosis Haemostasis (Section Editor)
1999 – 2009 Circulation Research

Publications:

About 500 original publications, reviews and several books on physiological and pharmacological aspects of myocardial infarction, pharmacology of platelet function, blood coagulation, prostaglandins, cellular effects of coagulation factors (thrombin, Xa) and signal transduction in vascular smooth muscle cells. Pharmacology and Clinics of Aspirin

Farhat Din

Farhat Din

Farhat Din

BSc, MBChB, MD, FRCS

Farhat Din completed her medical degree at St Andrews and Manchester University prior to returning to Edinburgh to undertake surgical training. She completed her MD thesis in examining the molecular mechanisms underlying NSAID- mediated prevention of colorectal cancer. She was awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist fellowship in 2010. Currently she integrates her clinical practice as a consultant colorectal surgeon with her translational research programme investigating the effects of aspirin and other chemopreventive agents on mTOR signalling in colorectal cancer.

Colorectal cancer is a major cause of cancer death worldwide necessitating new strategies of disease control. Understanding the cellular signalling that governs growth of cancer cells holds the key to developing agents which interfere with cancer proliferation. The mTOR signalling pathway plays a pivotal role in controlling cell survival and regulation of cell metabolism and energy balance. Dysregulation of the mTOR signalling axis is implicated in the development of several cancers including colorectal cancer, supporting mTOR signalling as a promising target for chemoprevention. Our research focuses on colorectal cancer prevention by investigating the molecular mechanisms of the anti-tumour effects of chemopreventive agents such as aspirin on mTOR signalling to identify druggable targets in a pathway medicine approach.

http://www.nutshell-videos.ed.ac.uk/farhat-din-bowel-cancer-prevention/

Ronald Eccles

Prof Ronald Eccles

Ronald Eccles

Professor

Professor Eccles is Director of the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University, Wales UK. He is an expert on the symptoms of common cold and flu and medicines used to treat colds and flu. He has spent his career at Cardiff University and he established the Common Cold Centre in Cardiff in 1988, a Clinical Research Organisation that conducts scientific and clinical research on treatments for cough, colds and flu. His recent research has studied the effects of chilling on the onset of common cold symptoms and the effects of placebo treatments. He has special interests in studying nasal congestion and cough, and has published many scientific papers on these topics He is the author of some 250 publications and has contributed to many medical textbooks.

Langley

Prof Ruth Langley

Ruth Langley

Professor

I am based at the UK Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London where I jointly lead the Cancer Group; and have a clinical consultant post at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital.

I have a particular interest in gastro-oesophageal malignancy and have co-ordinated a series of trials and associated translational studies, and have led the investigation of the use of transdermal oestrogen in the treatment of prostate cancer.

I am the Chief Investigator of an international trial (Add-Aspirin) designed to assess the effect of aspirin as an additional adjuvant agent in several common solid tumours.

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Daniel José Piñeiro

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Name
Daniel José Piñeiro
Academic Affiliations:
Full Professor of Medicine, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Trustee, Board of Trustees, American College of Cardiology
Professional Setting:
My academic experience includes more than 40 years as a practicing medical doctor, teacher, and researcher. I have fulfilled these appointments in settings of vital social engagement and impact, most notably at the Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martín” of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a public hospital with high academic recognition. Additionally, I currently hold the position of Full Professor of Medicine at that same University.
Academic Activities:
  • International Meetings Participations: 180
  • Books-Editor: 1
  • Books Chapters: 39
  • Refereed Full Articles: 118 (listed in Pubmed: 29)
  • Refereed Abstracts: 221
  • Editorial Boards: 10
Profesional Associations:
  • 2005 President, Sociedad Argentina de Cardiología.
  • 2011-2013 President, Inter-American Society of Cardiology.
  • 2011-2013 Member (ex-officio), Board of Directors, World Heart Federation
  • 2017-2018 Member (at large), Board of Directors, World Heart Federation
  • 2018-2021 Trustee, Board of Trustees, American College of Cardiology
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John Chia

Name
John Chia MBBS (Spore), MRCP (UK), FAMS (Spore)
Academic Affiliations:

Adjunct Associate Professor DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School,
Consultant Oncologist Curie Oncology Singapore,
Visiting Consultant National Cancer Centre Singapore.

Discipline:

Medical Oncology

Scientific Interests:
  • Aspirin as adjuvant therapy in established cancers
  • Adoptive T cell therapy and Dendritic cell vaccines in the treatment of solid tumors
  • Clinical Trial Design and Management
Declaration of Conflicts of Interest:

In the past 3 years, I have received consultant fees from Tessa Therapeutics, Aslan Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, and AstraZeneca.

I received grant support for investigator-initiated research from:

  • National Medical Research Council Singapore
  • Bayer AG

I hold shares in:  Roche, BMS, AstraZeneca, Incyte, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Trillium Therapeutics, Compugen, Arrowhead pharmaceuticals, Emergex, QuantumDx and Halozyme Therapeutics

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Badimon

Lina Badimon

Name
Lina Badimon BSc, PharmD, PhD, FESC, FAHA
Academic Affiliations:
Director of the Cardiovascular Science Program (ICCC) at the Hospital Santa Creu and San Pau, IIB-Sant Pau; CIBER CV. Director of the Cardiovascular Research Chair of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Director of the UNESCO Chair in Biomedical Sciences Training and Research.
Discipline:
Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Disease
Scientific Interests:
Cardio-metabolic diseases, thrombosis, atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease
Declaration of Conflicts of Interest:

I received consultant and speakers fees from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Lilly and Sanofi.

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    Junbo Ge

    Name

    Junbo Ge

    Ge Junbo, male, was born in Wulian, Shandong province on Nov. 8, 1962. He is the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor and doctoral supervisor. He received his doctor’s degree of Medicine from German Mayence University in 1993 and now works as the director for Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and the Center for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, Fudan University. He is also the designate chairman of the Cardiovascular Disease Branch of Chinese Medical Association, council member of the Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Association, international consultant of the American Heart Association. In Dec. 2013, he was appointed as the vice president of Tongji University.

    Prof. Ge has been engaged in clinical and scientific research work of cardiovascular disease since 1987, and his research area covers the pathogenesis of coronary heart disease, early diagnosis and treatment plan optimization.

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    Langley

    Ruth Langley

    Name
    Ruth Langley PhD, FRCP
    Academic Affiliations:
    Professor of Oncology and Clinical Trials, MRC Programme Leader and Chair of the Cancer Group, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, honorary consultant in medical oncology at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital.
    Discipline:
    Medical oncologist; trialist
    Scientific Interests:
    • Aspirin
    • Gastro-oesophageal malignancy
    • Transdermal oestrogen in the treatment of prostate cancer
    • Trials methodology
    Declaration of Conflicts of Interest:
    Has received honorarium from Bayer
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    Andrew T Chan

    Name
    Andrew T. Chan MD, MPH
    Academic Affiliations:
    Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Vice Chair, Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Co-leader, Cancer Epidemiology Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston.
    Discipline:
    Gastroenterology
    Scientific Interests:
    • The role of aspirin in the prevention of colorectal cancer and other cancers
    • The role of the gut microbiome in colorectal cancer and other chronic gastrointestinal diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease and diverticulitis
    • The role of diet and lifestyle in colorectal cancer and other chronic gastrointestinal cancers
    Declaration of Conflicts of Interest:

    AACR Honors Dr. Andrew T. Chan With 2019 AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award

    Click here to find the press release.

    I received consultant Bayer and Pfizer, Inc.

    I received grant support for investigator-initiated research from:

    • National Institutes of Health
    • National Cancer Institute
    • Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation
    • Bayer AG
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    Gaziano

    Mike Gaziano

    Name
    J Michael Gaziano MD, MPH
    Academic Affiliations:

    Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief Division of Aging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Director of Preventive Cardiology and Director of Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System.
    Discipline: Cardiology and Epidemiology

    Scientific Interests:
    I am a chronic disease epidemiologist with a particular interest in the roles that individual lifestyle choices (diet, exercise, smoking), metabolic factors (obesity, high cholesterol, and hypertension), and biochemical and genetic markers play on the risk of cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses. Also, of interest is the impact that vascular disease has on other organ systems, including cognitive dysfunction and renal disease. I have an interest in the design of large-scale trials and observational studies nested in large health care systems using big data analytic techniques.
    Declaration of Conflicts of Interest:

    I received consultant and speaker fees Bayer.

    I received grant support as a principal investigator or co-investigator for research from the VA, DOD, NIH, Merck and Kowa.

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    Pierre Amarenco

    Name

    Pierre Amarenco, MD, FAHA, FAAN

    Academic Affiliations:
    • Professor of Neurology at Paris-Diderot Sorbonne University 
    • Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Stroke Center; Bichat University Hospital
    • Co-Director INSERM Unit-698 “Clinical Research in Atherothrombosis”
    Discipline:

    Neurology and Vascular Neurology

    Scientific Interests:
    • Understanding and preventing stroke and vascular diseases
    • Clinical trials in prevention of vascular diseases
    • Carotid intima-media thickness studies
    • Lipid trials: prevention and therapeutic –protective- evaluation
    Declaration of Conflicts of Interest:

    N/A

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    Carlo Patrono

    CHAIR
    Name
    Carlo Patrono MD, FESC, FRCP
    Academic Affiliations:
    Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome (Italy) and at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA).
    Discipline:
    Clinical Pharmacology
    Scientific Interests:
    • Studying platelet activation and inhibition in diabetes mellitus
    • Studying platelet activation and inhibition in myeloproliferative neoplasms
    • Investigating the mechanism of action of low-dose aspirin in preventing colorectal cancer
    Declaration of Conflicts of Interest:

    I received consultant and speakers fees from Acticor Biotech,  Amgen,  Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline,  Tremeau,  Zambon.

    I received grant support for investigator-initiated research from:

    • AIFA (Italian Drug Agency)
    • Bayer AG
    • Cancer Research UK
    • European Commission, FP6 and FP7 Programmes

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