POLI GUIDO

Born in 1957; M.D. degree in 1982, Specialist in Oncology in 1985 at the School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Italy. He begun his research on HIV/AIDS in 1984 in the Laboratory of Human Immunology directed by Alberto Mantovani at the “Mario Negri” Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milano, Italy, providing among the first descriptions of perturbation of innate immunity in HIV infection. In 1986 he joined the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the NIAID, NIH, directed by Anthony S. Fauci, where he focused on the role of interferons and cytokines as regulators of HIV latency and replication. For his contributions, he received the NIH Award of Merit in 1992. In 1994 he returned to Milano, Italy as Head of the AIDS Immunopathogenesis Unit at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milano and received the ESCI (European Society for Clinical Investigation) Award in 1999. in 2002 he became Associate Professor of Pathology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milano. Since January 2016 he has been promoted to Full Professor of Pathology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milano. Since 2008 he coordinates the Basic and Applied Immunology Section the PhD in Molecular Medicine (http://www.unisr.it/phd/eng). Among other grants, he has participated to several EC-FP6 funded grants (FP6 AVIP, NEAT, Europrise) and acted as coordinator of the “GISHEAL” program on the genetics and immunology of HIV+ long term nonprogressors (LTNP) – and he is participant to the FP7 project “AIM-HIV”. He is, or has been, Associate Editor of different scientific journals including The Journal of Immunology and AIDS. He is currently author of 155 original articles and 90 reviews, editorials or book chapters scientific publications for a total n. of citations >9,200 and an h-index of 54 (source: WOS).