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Prof. Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti is currently Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy since 2014, where he is Director of the Internal Medicine Unit for cancer patients and has established himself as a HF basic and clinical investigator. Prof Tocchetti is Fellow of the HFA, Chair of the Basic Science Section of the HFA, and past chair of the WG on Myocardial Function of the ESC, Board member of the ESC Council on Cardio-Oncology.
The main goal of his lab is to explore pathophysiologic mechanisms and therapeutic targets in cardiac dysfunction, with a particular interest on post-ischemic HF, genetic and inflammatory cardiomyopathies, Pulmonary Hypertension and RV dysfunction, and HF due to antineoplastic therapies, including novel anticancer immunotherapies and biologic drugs employed in inflammatory diseases.
