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Marco Infante

Endocrinology - MED/13
Practical Aspects of Nutrition in Internal Medicine - MED/09

Biography

Marco Infante obtained his M.D. degree with honors at Sapienza University of Rome in 2014. In 2019, he received the Board Certification in Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders, with honors, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In February 2023, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Systems and Experimental Medicine (European Ph.D. Label) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with the final evaluation of “Excellent quality, with honors”.

Starting from January 2019, he has been serving as a Research Scholar at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (Miami, FL, USA), where he has been involved in clinical research in the field of type 1 diabetes mellitus, pancreatic islet transplantation, diabetes technology and immunotherapies for treatment of type 1 diabetes.

He is a member of several national and international scientific organizations and societies, including the Diabetes Research Institute Federation (DRIF), the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (IPITA), the Italian Society of Diabetology (SID) and the Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE).

He currently serves as Academic Editor of the Journal of Diabetes Research (Hindawi publisher), and as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare. He also serves as the Managing Editor of CellR4, an open access, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary international journal with a particular focus on cellular repair, replacement, regeneration, reprogramming and differentiation, and a scope ranging from fundamental new discoveries in basic science to translational, clinical trials and delivery of novel therapeutic options.

Moreover, he is currently serving on the Editorial Board of the international peer-reviewed journals Frontiers in Endocrinology, Frontiers in Public Health and Frontiers in Immunology. He also serves as an Ad Hoc Reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals, such as Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism (Wiley), BMJ Open, Diabetic Medicine (Wiley), Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, Journal of Diabetes Investigation (Wiley), Frontiers in Endocrinology, Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Public Health, World Journal of Diabetes, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and Nutrients, among others. He authored numerous publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several invited book chapters and editorials. He gave lectures at national and international meetings, and participated in several national and international training courses, expert meetings, conferences and conventions as a speaker or faculty member.

He is a Specialist in Ultrasonography of the Endocrine Neck. He received the Diploma in Clinical Ultrasound and the Advanced Diploma in Ultrasound in Endocrinology, which have been issued by the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB) in 2016 and 2018, respectively.

In May 2020, he has been appointed Supervisor for the international Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA) of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Starting from July 2020, he has been holding the position of Adjunct Professor of Endocrinology at UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences – Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (Rome, Italy), where he has been carrying out clinical research activities in the field of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders. In April 2021, he received the designation as Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN) by virtue of his research activity in the field of “Immunomodulatory Nutrition”. In July 2022, he has been appointed Adjunct Professor of Applied Nutrition in Internal Medicine at UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences (Rome, Italy) – Master Degree Course in Human Nutrition Sciences.