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Prof. Massimiliano Caprio, MD,PhD
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Prof.
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San Raffaele Roma Open University
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Bio:
Massimiliano Caprio is Professor of Endocrinology at San Raffaele Roma University. He is the head of the Laboratories of Cardiovascular Endocrinology at the Research Center of IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana in Rome, and works as a consultant endocrinologist and diabetologist . He has an internationally recognized expertise in the exploration of the roles of mineralocorticoid receptor activation in obesity and metabolic syndrome. Prof. Caprio has contributed a large amount of work on the pathophysiology of adipose proliferation and endothelial inflammation due to excessive mineralocorticoid activation. He authored more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and has been often invited to give lectures by several academic institutions and meetings all over the world. He has been recipient of prestigious research grants as a PI: Fondation pour la Recherche Medical (France), Italian Ministery of Health, Italian Ministery of Foreign Affairs, etc. He is associate editor of Frontiers in Endocrinology, and serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals (Circulation, ATVB, Endocrinology, J Clin Endocrinol Metab, FASEB J, etc.).