Mauro Perretti
Prof Mauro Perretti, PhD
Mauro Perretti, PhD FBPharmacolS FSB (Director since 2003) is Professor of Immunopharmacology (2001) and Co-Director of the WHRI (2013). He joined WHRI in 1991 after a 4-year experience at the Sclavo Research Centre (Siena, Italy). He obtained a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Florence, Italy in 1985, and a PhD in 1996 (University of London). His inflammation research of the last decade has focused on the patho-pharmacology of endogenous anti-inflammatory mediators and their receptors, to be used as innovative targets for the development of therapeutics to moderate over-exuberant inflammation.
