European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Italy
Biography
Andrea Velardi graduated in Medicine in 1975 and specialized in Internal Medicine in 1980 at the University of Perugia, Italy. In 1982-84, he was awarded a NATO Research Fellowship for post-doc training at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA (under the supervision of Prof. Max D. Cooper) where he studied the development of the immune system. He continued his training at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland (Lorenzo Moretta's laboratory) where he performed research on immune responses against tumours. Upon returning to Perugia University, he was appointed Lecturer in Clinical Immunology and Head of the Clinical Immunology Service in 1992, Associate Professor of Haematology in 2002 and Full Professor in 2005. As Scientific Director of the Perugia allogeneic bone marrow transplant
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