Marcello Ciaccio

Marcello Ciaccio is Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine and President of the School of Medicine at the University of Palermo. He is Director of the Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Molecular Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics at the University of Palermo. He is also Director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine - A.O.U.P. Palermo “P. Giaccone”. He is member of the Commission for National Scientific Qualification (ASN) 2021-2023 for the Scientific Sector 05 / E3-Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology. He has been Chair of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC). He is part of the Editorial Board of several peer-reviewed Journals and he serves as a Reviewer for many prestigious Journals. He is author of more than 400 scientific publications on national and international Journals.

My work broadly concentrates on the evaluation of circulating bi-omarkers in several diseases, including neurologic deficiencies, infectious diseases, sepsis, neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease, oncological and cardiovascular diseases. More specifically, my approach starts from the definition of the reference intervals of a biomarker and its subsequent clinical validation. Other re-search interests are the study of metabolism of steroid hormones; es-trogens and their metabolites in rat brain; role of unsatured fat acid in cAMP formation in the retina; inhibitory action of some aminoacids in the brain; function of vitamin A in the retina; cardiac protection from Radicalic Species of Oxygen damage; antioxidant role of vitamin A; ef-fects of retinoic acid of TAT activity.