Diego Fornasari

Diego Fornasari is an MD, PhD in Pharmacology & Toxicology. He has been post-doctoral fellow at Yale University, New Haven CT,  Department of Internal Medicine (1990-1992); Researcher at  the National Research Council (CNR), Centre of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (1993-1999); Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at University of Milan (1999-2005). He is currently Associate Professor of Pharmacology (since 2005) and Director of the Graduate School of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology of the University of Milan. He is the Elected President of AISD (2025-2026), the Italian Association for the Study of Pain, Italian chapter of IASP.

Main scientific interests: I) Pain pharmacology II) Pharmacology and neurobiology  of the Autonomic Nervous System with emphasis on the transcription factors that control its development and regulate the expression of receptors, ion channels and transporters. III) Pharmacological approaches to genetic diseases of the autonomic nervous system due to mutations of transcription factors (CCHS Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, Hirshsprung disease, neuroblastoma) IV ) Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics.