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Dott. Alessandro Caforio
Director of Research and Innovation
Prof. Leandro Pecchia
Vice-Rector for Research

Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Research Unit of Intelligent Technologies for Health and Wellbeing and of the Observatory UCBM-Intesa San Paolo Science and Technology for Global Health. A member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario, he is the Secretary General of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Prof. Umberto Vespasiani Gentilucci
Coordinator of Research and Third Mission - Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, he obtained with honors a degree, specialization, doctorate (La Sapienza) and two second level masters (La Cattolica and UCBM). With a career entirely in UCBM and Fondazione Policlinico CBM, integrates clinical, teaching, and research activities in metabolic and autoimmune liver diseases. He is Deputy Coordinator of the PhD Program in Integrated Biomedical Sciences and Bioethics and of the Specialization Schools in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver and the Steering Committee of the Italian Primary Biliary Cholangitis Registry.

Prof. Domenico Formica
Coordinator of Research and Third Mission - Departmental Faculty of Engineering

Full Professor of Bioengineering and co-leader of the Neurophysiology and Neuroengineering of Human-Technology Interaction Research Unit (NeXTlab). From 2022 to 2025, he was Professor of Bioengineering at Newcastle University (UK), where he founded and directed the Neurorobotics Lab. His research lies at the intersection of neurorobotics and neuroscience, and he has coordinated several national and European projects on these topics.

Prof.ssa Laura Dugo
Coordinator of Research and Third Mission - Departimental Faculty of Science and Bio-Technology

Associate Professor of Food Chemistry. She conducts chemical-biological research on the nutraceutical valorization of phycocomplexes and bioactive molecules. From 2022 to 2025, she was a member of the Joint Faculty-Student Committee and academic coordinator for internationalization for the Department of Sciences and Biotechnologies. Since November 2025, she has been the Faculty's Research and Third Mission Coordinator.

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