Federico De Marco

Biographycal sketch Federico De Marco MD, PhD , is Senior Virologist & Experimental Oncologist at the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute of Rome and a senior partner of the Dept of Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty of “Sapienza”, University of Rome. Dr F De Marco (FDM) has published over 50 scientific papers in several areas of experimental medicine and biology and served as principal investigator or scientific responsible in a number of research projects sponsored by public and private institutions, earning himself a sound reputation of rigorous research activity. Since many years he is serving as Adjunct Faculty Member at Sapienza Medical Faculty teaching Infectious Diseases (At the School of Nursing) and Viral Diagnostics (at the School of Clinical Pathology). By unanimous acknowledgement he has a wide medical cultural background and a remarkable education in basic sciences. He has continuously cultivated a deep interest in humanities, with special regard to the impact of low income personal and social status on health, life expectancy and equal opportunities, to disability psychology and to sciences teaching and practicing. Deeply interested in basic biomedical research and considering the clinical practice as most inspiring bases of experimental research, he has continuously cultivated his clinical medical profile. Accordingly, he has completed a full training in Clinical Infectious Diseases in 1993 (four year internship) and has always been conducting a free-lance consultant activity as bio-molecular specialist for a number of private health services providers operating the Rome Area. Within this activity he as implemented and a number of in-house methods for the Nucleic Acid Based diagnoses of human infectious diseases and for the identification of molecular markers of parasitic diseases of medical and veterinary relevance.