Prof. Paolo Simioni
Curriculum Vitae
Scopus ID: 7004949784
Prof. Paolo Simioni is Full Professor of Internal Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine (DiMed) of Padua University. He directs the First Chair of Internal Medicine – thrombotic and hemorrhagic disorders and the Regional Centre for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hemophilia, thrombophilia, and complex coagulation disorders at Padua University Hospital, which follows more than 5.000 patients with inherited coagulative disorders. Moreover prof. Paolo Simioni is the Head ad interim of the Fifth Chair of Internal Medicine- hepatology at Padua University Hospital, and directs two schools of medical specialization in Internal Medicine, a Master in vascular medicine and a training curse in laboratory diagno at DiMed. At Padua University Hospital he is also the Head of DIDAS- Integrated Educational Scientific Welfare Department.
Prof. Simioni has authored over 600 publications, with a total number of citations equal to 18.327 and an H index equal to 63 (Scopus). His main research areas at present include the identification and molecular and biochemical study of congenital defects of coagulation in patients from families with thrombotic and hemorrhagic diathesis, in addition to the development of laboratory tests for the screening of patients with thrombophilia and hemophilias: tests of thrombin-generation, the study of microvescicles and nucleosomes, gene therapy for the treatment of hemorrhagic and thrombotic coagulopathy. He is the Chairman of GIRTI, Italian Group of Childhood Thrombosis Registry, and founder of the Italian Registry of Childhood Thrombosis (RITI) from 2007.
Prof. Simioni has discovered the hyperfunctional Factor IX Padua that is used in the current clinical trials of gene therapy for Hemophilia B patients and, more recently, the Factor VIII Padua, the first identified F8 gene lesion responsible for increased levels of factor VIII and inherited thrombophilia. He is involved in the management of severe perioperative and post-traumatic bleeding with viscoelastic techniques and aggregometry point-of-care at Padua University Hospital.
Prof. Paolo Simioni is Full Professor of Internal Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine (DiMed) of Padua University. He directs the First Chair of Internal Medicine – thrombotic and hemorrhagic disorders and the Regional Centre for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hemophilia, thrombophilia, and complex coagulation disorders at Padua University Hospital, which follows more than 5.000 patients with inherited coagulative disorders. Moreover prof. Paolo Simioni is the Head ad interim of the Fifth Chair of Internal Medicine- hepatology at Padua University Hospital, and directs two schools of medical specialization in Internal Medicine, a Master in vascular medicine and a training curse in laboratory diagno at DiMed. At Padua University Hospital he is also the Head of DIDAS- Integrated Educational Scientific Welfare Department.
Prof. Simioni has authored over 600 publications, with a total number of citations equal to 18.327 and an H index equal to 63 (Scopus). His main research areas at present include the identification and molecular and biochemical study of congenital defects of coagulation in patients from families with thrombotic and hemorrhagic diathesis, in addition to the development of laboratory tests for the screening of patients with thrombophilia and hemophilias: tests of thrombin-generation, the study of microvescicles and nucleosomes, gene therapy for the treatment of hemorrhagic and thrombotic coagulopathy. He is the Chairman of GIRTI, Italian Group of Childhood Thrombosis Registry, and founder of the Italian Registry of Childhood Thrombosis (RITI) from 2007.
Prof. Simioni has discovered the hyperfunctional Factor IX Padua that is used in the current clinical trials of gene therapy for Hemophilia B patients and, more recently, the Factor VIII Padua, the first identified F8 gene lesion responsible for increased levels of factor VIII and inherited thrombophilia. He is involved in the management of severe perioperative and post-traumatic bleeding with viscoelastic techniques and aggregometry point-of-care at Padua University Hospital.