Founders


Riccardo Bellazzi

Full Professor of Bioengineering and Medical Informatics at the University of Pavia, Italy. He is President of the Centre for Health Technologies, chair of the board of the PhD program in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the University of Pavia. Prof. Bellazzi is the Director of the “Mario Stefanelli” Biomedical Informatics Labs at the University of Pavia and of the Laboratory of Informatics and Systems science of the IRCCS Fondazione S. Maugeri hospital of Pavia.


Carlomaurizio Montecucco

Full Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Pavia and Dean of the University of Pavia School of Medicine and Surgery. He is the Director of the Division of Rheumatology at S. Matteo University Hospital in Pavia and the Director of the Postgraduate School of Rheumatology.


Livia Visai

Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pavia. She was Vice-Director of the Centre for Tissue Engineering (CIT) at the University of Pavia from 2009 to 2015. From 2011 to 2014 she held apical position at the Laboratory of Nanotechnology at Salvatore Maugeri Foundation in Pavia. Since 2006 she has been a member of the Board of the Italian Society for Biomaterials.