Mauro Ferrari was born on 7 July 1959 and is a nanoscientist and leader in the field of nanomedicine.
16 Facts About Mauro Ferrari
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Mauro Ferrari served as special expert on nanotechnology for the National Cancer Institute and was instrumental in establishing the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer in 2004.
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Mauro Ferrari spent his early years in Udine and Florence before attending the University of Padova and earning his Laurea in Mathematics in 1985.
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Mauro Ferrari moved to Berkeley, California where he earned a master's degree and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of California Berkeley.
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Mauro Ferrari became an associate professor of engineering at Berkeley, then moved to the Ohio State University as professor of bioengineering, internal medicine, and mechanical engineering.
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Mauro Ferrari moved to the MD Anderson Cancer Center and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX to become the chair of the department of nanomedicine and biomedical engineering, and then in 2010 accepted the position of president and CEO of the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Houston, TX.
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Mauro Ferrari was appointed as Chief Commercialization Officer of Houston Methodist in 2018, and retired in 2019.
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On 1 January 2020, Mauro Ferrari assumed the position of president of the European Research Council.
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Mauro Ferrari was not alone in his criticism of the EU response to COVID-19.
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Mauro Ferrari writes that 'the expected burden of death, suffering, societal transformation, and economic devastation' of the pandemic justifies breaking this rule.
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Mauro Ferrari leads a physical sciences in oncology center, one of a network of centers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Center.
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Mauro Ferrari developed a new drug called iNPG-pDox, composed of silicon nanoparticles loaded with polymeric doxorubicin, that had better results at lower doses in animal models compared to standard doxorubicin chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer.
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Mauro Ferrari has produced more than 350 publications, including seven books and 41 issued patents in the US and Europe.
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Mauro Ferrari met and married his first wife Marialuisa while they were both students at the University of Padova, and they moved to Berkeley, California.
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Mauro Ferrari married Paola Del Zotto from Udine, Italy in 1995.
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Mauro Ferrari has five children, including two sets of twins.