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Professor Dario DiFrancesco

University of Milan - Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Bio, Milan (Italy)

Doct Deg Physiol/Biophysics 1973, Un Milano. Postdoc Cambridge and Oxford 1976-1980 (Denis Noble). In Oxford, discovery of "funny" pacemaker current, responsible for cardiac spontaneous activity and autonomic regulation of rate, soon recognized as a major achievement in cardiac physiology. Full Prof. of Physiology at the Univ. of Milano since 1986, and Univ. San Raffaele, Milano since 1999. Among Honors-Awards: Acad Europaea memb since 1992; Int Prize "Prof P Rijlant" Acad Found Royal Academy of Med of Belgium, 1994; Grand Prix scientifique, Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande, Institut de France 2008; 2014 Magnes Lect Prize, Israel Soc Physiol Pharmacol; 2015 Roy Soc Phil Trans 350th anniversary, paper selected among 33 most influential papers since 1665; 2017 CCW Prize Lect at 41st EWGCCE Cong, Vienna; consulted annually by Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Committee since 1997. >200 presentations; > 200 articles. Bibliometrics: http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=BjMvgjYAAAAJ

What makes your heart beat?

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Basic Science

Session type: Symposium

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