Dr. Lucio Luzzatto

Scientific Consultant

LUCIO LUZZATTO was born in Geneva, Italy on September 28, 1936. Married to Paola Caboara Luzzatto, with two children, Stefano and Fatima. Qualified MD from the University of Genova Medical School in 1959. Trained in haematology in Pavia, and at Columbia University in New York. Obtained Liberia Docenza in Biochemistry in 1968. From 1964 to 1974 was lecturer then professor of haematology at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria. From 1974-1981 was Director of the International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR, Napoli, Italy. In 1981 Lucio Luzzato succeeded Sir John Dacie as Professor of Haematology and Director of the Haematology Department at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London, Hammersmith Hospital, where from 1981-1993 he was also Honorary Director of the MRC/LRF Leukemia Department of Human Genetics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Cornell University Medical College, New National Institute for Cancer Research, Genova, Italy, where in 2002 he was also appointed to a personal Chair of Haematology. Lucio Luzzatto obtained FRCPath in 1982 and FRCP in 1983, and obtained Medical Licenses in Italy, Nigeria, UK and New York State.

Lucio Luzzatto holds an honorary degree in Pharmacy from the University of Urbino (1990), and an honorary DSc from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1998). He is honorary member of the American Society of Haematology, he has been Founding President of the Nigerian Society for Haematology, President of the Italian Association of Genetics, Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Gene Therapy, member of EMBO since 1979, of HUGO since 1990 and member of the American Association of Physicians. Lucio Luzzatto has obtained several awards, including the William Dameshek Medal (1975), the Pius XI Medal (1976), Jose Carreras Medal (2002). In 2004 he was elected Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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