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e-mail: pietroiu@uniroma2.it
Telefono: +39 06 2090 2204
SSD: MED/44
SC: 06/M2
Macro-area:
Medicina legale e del lavoro
Campi di interesse: 
- Tossicologia nanomateriali ingegnerizzati
- Applicazioni biomediche dei nanomateriali ingegnerizzati
- Patologie lavoro-correlate

 Prof. Antonio Pietroiusti 

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Compendium: H Index 28 (Scopus); Citazioni Totali 3138 (Scopus); Impact Factor Complessivo: 467  (Researchgate)
 
Associate professor in Occupational medicine at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Elegible as full professor in Occupational Medicine. Enabled to work as physician in the US (ECFMG examination)
 
Research fields: health effects of  exposure to micro and nanosized materials; relationship between job activity and health; environmental pollution; mechanisms of local and systemic inflammation after exposure to foreign substances.
 
International Grants
 
BIORIMA (bionanomaterial risk management) Role: Principal Investigator Supporting Institution: Program  Horizon 2020 of  European Commission Grant date 2018 project duration: 48 months
 
NANOINFORMATIX (development and implementation of sustainable modelling platform for nanoinformatix) Role: Principal Investigator Supporting Institution: Program  Horizon 2020 of  European Commission Grant date 2019 project duration: 48 months
 
PLASTICs FATE (plastics fate and effects on the human body) Role: Principal Investigator Supporting Institution: Program  Horizon 2020 of  European Commission Grant date: 2020 project duration: 48 months
 
NANOREG (A Common European Approach to the Regulatory testing of Nanomaterials). Role: third party (subcontractor) Supporting Institution: 7th framework program of  European Commission Grant date: 2013 project duration: 48 months
 
MARINA (Managing the Risk of Nanomaterials) Role: Principal Investigator Supporting Institution: 7th framework program of  European Commission Grant date: 2011 project duration: 48 months
 
EU LAC: Defining a Roadmap for Cooperative Health Research between the EU and Latin America-Carribean countries: a policy oriented approach. Ruolo: Expert panel member Supporting Institution: 7th framework program of  European Commission Grant date: 2011 project duration: 48 months
 
MODENA (Modelling Nanomaterial Toxicity) Ruolo: member of the management committee Supporting Institution: European Cooperation in Science and Technology Grant date: 2012 project duration: 48 months
 
National Grants
 
"Il rischio ischemico cardiaco nella popolazione lavorativa e i suoi rapporti con l' attività in turno" (ISPESL); "CCM 2013- Ministero della Salute- proposta di un progetto per l' empowerment degli operatori sanitari e della cittadinanza attraverso un programma di ri-orientamento dei servizi sanitari verso la promozione della salute e la prevenzione" (Ministero Salute); " Meccanismi di tossicità di nanoparticelle di nuova sintesi: migrazione trans-epiteliale ed interazione con bersagli biologici"(PRIN); "Impact of engineered nanoparticles on reproductive health and
embryonic development" (Finalizzato salute); “Meccanismi di danno e biomarcatori precoci nel rischio per la funzionalità uditiva da esposizione ad agenti ototossici: modelli di sperimentazione animale e imaging cocleare su soggetti esposti e pazienti neurologici con simulazioni numeriche di funzionalità cocleare e analisi di profili metabolici anche mediante tecniche di machine learning” (INAIL)
 
Editorial activity: Member  of the International Advisory Board of the journal “Occupational Medicine”- London.; Editor of the newsletter of the Royal Chemical Society, UK; Co-Editor of the special issue of the journal Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology (TAAP) entitled "The first decade of Nanotoxicology: Achievements, Disappointments and Lessons",
 
Theaching in Foreign Countries
 
Co-organizer  and  teacher at  the post-graduate course  in nanotoxicology at  Karolinska Institutet Stockholm
Teachers  at  IPS seminars at King’s College in Londra.
Teacher at European doctorate  Nanofar held at the Universities  of Nantes, Angers, Liege, Leuven, Nottingham, Santiago de Compostela).

Relevant Papers

1. Paoluzi P, Pietroiusti A. Prophylactic sclerotherapy of  large esophageal varices. New Engl J Med 1988; 388, 1015-1017
2. Pietroiusti et al. Nanomaterial exposure, toxicity, and impact on human health. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologVolume 10, Issue 5, September/October 2018.
3. Pietroiusti et al. The unrecognized occupational relevance of the interaction between engineered nanomaterials and the gastro-intestinal tract: A consensus paper from a multidisciplinary working group. Particle and Fibre Toxicology Volume 14, Issue 1, 25 November 2017, Article number 47
   
4. Stone V, Miller, M.R.b, Clift, M.J.D.c,d, Elder, A.e, Mills, N.L.b, Møller, P.f, Schins, R.P.F.g, Vogel, U.h,i, Kreyling, W.G.j, Jensen, K.A.h, Kuhlbusch, T.A.J.k,l, Schwarze, P.E.m, Hoet, P.n, Pietroiusti, A.o, de Vizcaya-Ruiz, A.p, Baeza-Squiban, A.q, Teixeira, J.P.r,s, Tran, C.L.t, Cassee, F.R.u,v. Nanomaterials versus ambient ultrafine particles: An opportunity to exchange toxicology knowledge. Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 125, Issue 10, October 2017, Article number 106002