Journal of Infectious Disease and Pathology
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Biography

Professor Pietro Andreone graduated from the University of Bologna (Italy) School of Medicine and Surgery in 1980 and completed his training in Internal Medicine attaining Fellowship in 1989. In the same year he was appointed as Assistant Professor and from 2005 as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences at the University of Bologna. From 1991 he is the leader of a research group and has had continuous funding from several research institutions. His research field are the diseases of the liver with special interest in viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver immunology, liver transplantation and liver stem cells. Professor Andreone has published 193 peer reviewed publications with a h-index of 40. He has or has had several collaborations with international research groups. He is the Director of the Program for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Viral Hepatitis at the University Hospital of Bologna. He has been the principal investigator in over 70 clinical studies especially in the field of innovative therapies for hepatitis C, hepatitis B and autoimmune liver diseases.

Research Interest

Chronic Hepatits, Liver cirrhosis, Heptocellular Carcinoma, Liver Transplantation, Liver Immunology, Liver Immunology

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