University of Milan, Italy

Prof. Alberico L. Catapano is Director of the Center for the Study, Prevention and Therapy of Atherosclerosis of the University of Milan at the Bassini Hospital, Director of Cardiovascular Research Unit at Multimedica IRCCS Sesto San Giovanni (MI), President of SISA Foundation, President of the Italian Society for the Study of Atherosclerosis (SISA), President of the Italian Society of Clinical and Experimental Therapy (SITeCS), Past President of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS), Coordinator of the EAS Lipid Clinics Network, and Co-Chairman of the EAS/European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines for the treatment of dyslipoproteinaemias and lipid consensus papers.

In March 2021, he received from the President of the Republic the honour of Commendatore of the Italian Republic for scientific research.

Prof. Catapano interests in the study of atherosclerosis, lipids, lipoproteins and genetic dyslipidaemias, and he has made landmark observations regarding heat shock proteins and pentraxins in atherogenesis, on high-density lipoproteins in the modulation of the immune response, on the identification and validation of possible therapeutic targets by exploiting genetic information and on the role of cumulative exposure to LDL in determining cardiovascular events. He is currently Associate Editor of several scientific journals including the EHJ, he has authored more than 730 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals with high impact factor with more than 255,000 citations in his career (https://bit.ly/CatapanoAL-GoogleScholar), and is among the highly cited scientists from 2019 till now according to Clarivate.