Hematology

Biography

Prof Tiziano Barbui, graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Padua. He founded the Department of Haematology at the Ospedali Riuniti of Bergamo in 1981 where he was Chief Executive Officer from 1981 to 2008. He is Professor of Hematology at University of Milan-Bicocca and Scientific Director of Foundation of Clinical Research - FROM, Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy. He has had the honor of being President of the Italian Society of Hematology. He has directed many international research groups in Hematology and currently coordinates the scientific activities of a group of the European-Leukemia-Net WP9 on Myeloproliferative Disorders. He was one of the four founders of a scientific consortium funded by the American NIH on chronic myeloproliferative diseases. He has served as a chairman on the Subcommittee on Lupus Anticoagulant of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. During the plenary session of the European Society of Hematology (Stockholm in 2013) he received the Jean Bernard Prize, father of European haematology. The City of Bergamo awarded him the gold medal for his dedication to the sick and for his contributions to knowledge in Medicine. He is involved in other professional Societies, including the American Society of Haematology and the European Haematology Association. Main research interests are: Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN), Thrombosis in Cancer, Congenital and Acquired Thrombophilia, and outcome research studies. He has published 650 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals. He is among the top 50 Italian scientists in the field of Medicine and Immunology

Research Interest

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Haematolog, Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Thrombosis in Cancer, Congenital and Acquired Thrombophilia