Claudio Ricciardi

Dr. Claudio Ricciardi works at Health Superior Institute in Rome, Italy. For over fifteen years in the Compared Toxicology and Ecotoxicology Laboratory, he's interested in public health problems related to the presence of environmental xenobiotics. In particular, to the diagnose of anomalies and malformations with the use of techniques of experimental teratogenesis and toxicology of development, in vivo e in vitro. In 1998 and in 1999 he specializes in Bioethics at "La Sapienza" University in Rome, Italy in the course leaded by prof. G. Berlinguer. Now he works in the Environment and Primary Prevention Dept. in the "Molecular Epidemiology" Division, where he's interested in problems that concern environmental disparities, primary prevention and interactions between genes, organisms, and environment from an ethic point of view. He is the author of more than 60 scientific articles issued and from 2005 he's member of Italian Institute of Anthropology.