Gennaro MAIETTA
Professor, University of Florence.
Biography
Gennaro MAIETTA graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Florence in 1981 and he received postgraduate degree in Clinical Immunology and Allergology at the school of Immunology of Prof. Ricci in 1984. During postgraduate course he focused his interests in thyroid autoimmunity and in thyroid stimulating antibodies detection on FTRL5 cells. Later he become the head of Allergy Unit of Public Health Department in City of Lecce (ITALY) and the head of the laboratory of Immunology of Pignatelli Institute in the same city. Since 20 years he is interested in basophils and their role in allergic disease. He is member of EAACI and of AAIITO (Italian Allergy and Immunology Society) and he is the coordinator of the regional section of AAIITO in Apulia.
Abstract
Abstract : Basophil Activation Test as biomarker of allergic desensitization