Professor of Internal Medicine at the Second University of Naples, Sergio Bonini is at present Research Associate at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Translational Pharmacology, Rome. From 2013 to 2017 he was Expert-on-Secondment, Advisory Function-Senior Medical Officer at the European Medicines Agency, where he is now National Expert.
M.D. degree at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1971. Board certified in Allergology and Clinical Immunology (1972), Gastroenterology (1973) and Internal Medicine (1984).
Research of Prof. Bonini has mainly focused on allergic and autoimmune diseases (Charles Blackley Awardee in 2010) as well as, under the mentorship of the Nobel Prize Professor Rita Levi Montalcini, on the role of Nerve Growth Factor in allergic inflammation and tissue remodelling. Scientific production of Prof. Bonini includes approx. 500 publications (more than 300 indexed by ISI ; H-index > 70). Professor Bonini is listed among the 100 Top Italian Scientists/Clinical Sciences working in Italy and abroad (www.topitalianscientists.org)
Prof. Bonini is Past-President of the Italian Medical Society in Great Britain (President 2016-2018), Past-President of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (President 1998-2001).