Alberto FalorniUniversity of Perugia, Italy Email: alberto.falorni@unipg.it
Alberto Falorni is an assistant professor in Internal Medicine and Head of the Laboratory of Immunology and Immunogenetics, Department of Internal Medicine at University of Perugia. He has got a PhD in Experimental Endocrinology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and a degree as Specialist in Endocrinology at the University of Perugia. He is consultant in endocrinology at the Endocrine and Diabetes division at the Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Perugia and member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Endocrinology. He is currently teaching Endocrine Pathophysiology at the Postgraduate School in Endocrinoloy and Metabolic Diseases and the Postgraduate School in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Perugia. He is docent of the course “Endocrine Autoimmune Diseases” at the Medical School of the University of Perugia. He has published over 140 paper in peer-reviewed journals on epidemiology, genetics, pathogenesis, pathophysiology and clinical management of endocrine autoimmune diseases, such as Addison’s disease, type 1 diabetes mellitus, premature ovarian insufficiency and autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes. In Euradrenal, Alberto Falorni is leader of WP 7: “Diagnosis, treatment and follow-up”. Dr. Falorni is co-ordinating a national network for the characterisation of patients with primary adrenal insufficiency (Italian Addison Network) and a Regional Network for epidemiological studies on type 1 diabetes (Umbria Type 1 Diabetes Registry). The research activity of dr. Falorni’s group focuses on prediction, prevention, pathogenesis and immunogenetics of type 1 diabetes, autoimmune Addison’s disease, premature ovarian failure, and autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes. The section of Internal Medicine and Endocrine and Metabolic Sciences of the Department of Internal Medicine comprises also a ward of internal medicine, research laboratories equipped with instruments for studies in immunology, genetic and molecular biology, a laboratory for radioimmunological analyses and has access to a dedicated animal facility. Falorni’s group has previously developed radioimmunoassays for GAD65 autoantibodies and 21OH autoantibodies and demonstrated the association of the MICA and MICB genes with type 1 diabetes and Autoimmune Addison’s diseases and the positive association of the MHC2TA gene polymorphism with autoimmune Addison’s disease. Recently, dr.Falorni’s group has provided original data on the pathophysiology of autoimmune ovarian dysfunction in women with autoimmune Addison’s disease.
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