Overview
Alberto Mantovani is a immunology specialist with an H-index of 203 at Humanitas University (Member). Has been published in Nature, The Lancet, Nature Medicine. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
Alberto Mantovani is an Italian physician and immunologist. He is Scientific Director of Istituto Clinico Humanitas, President and Founder of the Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca, and Professor of Pathology at the State University of Milan. He is known for his works in the roles of the immune system in the development of cancer. His research on tumor-associated macrophages established inflammation as one of the causes of cancer. He was the first to identify monocyte chemotactic protein - 1 / CCL2 in 1983, and PTX3 in 1997. His works revealed the existence of decoy receptors in cell-signalling. He has been the most cited scientist in Italy, and one of the ten most cited immunologists worldwide.
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5 Publications
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Nat MedImmunityAnnu Rev PatholNat Rev Drug DiscovEur J Immunol
Key Publications
Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span.
Macrophage activation and polarization: nomenclature and experimental guidelines.
Diversity, Mechanisms, and Significance of Macrophage Plasticity.
Macrophages as tools and targets in cancer therapy.
Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition).
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