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Associate Professor Gilda Varricchi, MD, PhD

Professor Varricchi researches the immune cells and cytokines involved in the pathogenesis of severe asthma and investigates better solutions for patients with severe asthma.

Associate Professor Gilda Varricchi, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Naples Federico II

Naples, Italy

Professor Gilda Varricchi is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the Department of Translational Medical Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

Professor Varricchi conducts translational research on the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma and allergic diseases, including the roles of eosinophils, basophils, mast cells, macrophages and specific cytokines in allergic disorders and severe eosinophilic asthma.

In addition to delivering numerous invited lectures and training courses, Professor Varricchi is Co-Director of the World Allergy Organisation Centre of Excellence and Vice-Director of the Centre for Basic and Clinical Immunology (CISI) of the University of Naples Federico II. She is a member of the World Allergy Organization (WAO) Biologic Therapies in Allergic Diseases Committee. She is also member of the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum (CIA), the Italian Society of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (SIAAIC), the Italian Society of Internal Medicine (SIMI), the Junior Members Assembly of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), a member of the board of the Allergy Diagnosis Interest Group of EAACI and president of the Task Force on Biomarkers in Asthma and Allergy at the Italian Society of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology.

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Professor Louis-Philippe Boulet, MD, FRCPC

Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Laval University

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Professor Gianni Marone, MD

Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II

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Professor Celeste Porsbjerg, MD, PhD

Professor of Severe Asthma, Bispebjerg Hospital

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Professor Christopher Brightling, PhD, FMedSci

Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Leicester and Glenfield Hospital

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Professor Bruce Levy, MD

Division Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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Assistant Professor Marco Caminati, MD

Assistant Professor in Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona

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Professor Pascal Chanez, MD, PhD

Professor in the Department of Respiratory Diseases, University of Aix-Marseille

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Dr Simon Couillard MD-MSc

Assistant Professor in Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke

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Associate Professor Delbert (Del) Dorscheid MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia

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Professor Teal S. Hallstrand, MD, MPH

Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington

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Professor Enrico Heffler, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of Postgraduate Residency Program in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Humanitas University

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Dr Tanya M. Laidlaw, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Professor Ian Pavord, MA, DM, FRCP, FERS, FMedSci

Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Oxford

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