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FERRETTI GUIDO
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Professor of Physiology, active in human physiology, with special reference to the cardio-pulmonary responses to exercise and to the adaptation to special environments.
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Dr. Guido Ferretti
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
NAME : FERRETTI
FIRST NAME : Guido
NATIONALITY : Italian
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH : Torino, Italie, March 18th 1956
CIVIL STATUS : Married
Wife : Silvia Spinazzé, born in Milano, 18-12-1959
Children : Lavinia Ferretti, born in Aosta, 21-5-1994
Livio Ferretti, born in Aosta, 5-12-1995 Lapo Ferretti, born in Aosta, 27-2-1999
ADDRESS IN GENEVA : 26C, Chemin de Carabot, CH-1232 CONFIGNON
ADDRESS IN AOSTA Via Croce di Città 82, I-11100 AOSTA
CONTACTS
tel GE +41-22-3795363 fax +41-22-3795402
tel BS +39-030-3717440, fax +39-030-3717443
tel home CH +41-22-7571474
tel home IT +39-0165-43935
mobile CH +41-76-5625363
mobile IT +39-329-1056584
e-mail Guido.Ferretti@unige.ch
ferretti@med.unibs.it
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Physiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Science, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy (part time)
and
Professor of Clinical Physiology, Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, Centre Médical Universitaire, Université de Genève, Switzerland (part time)
EDUCATION
July 1974 : Maturità Classica, Liceo C. Beccaria, Milano,
Italie.
July 1981 : Medicine Doctor, Università di Milano,
Italy.
July 1984 : Post-doctoral degree in Sports Medicine (cum laude), Università di Milano, Italy.
January 1998 : Habilitation in Human Physiology, School of
Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
January 1979 - October 1981 : MD Student, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Università di Milano, Italy.
November 1981 - October 1983 : Collaboratore Professionale, Department of Biomedical Technologies, School of Medicine, Università di Milano, Italy.
November 1983 - May 1985 : Assistant, Institute of Human Physiology, School of Medicine, Università di Brescia, Italy.
June 1985 - September 1988 : Assistant, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
October 1988 - January 1992 : Maître Assistant, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
February 1992 – September 2003 : Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland (part time since 2002)
November 2001 – October 2012 : Professor of Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnologies, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy (part time)
October 2003 – December 2013 : Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche, Department of Basic Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland (part time since 2002)
November 2012 – to date : Professor of Physiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Science, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy (part time)
January 2014 – to date : Professor of Clinical Physiology, Department of Basic Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland (part time)
SOJOURNS IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS
October 1979 - December 1979 : "Student Visitor", Department of Physiology, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
September 1980 - December 1980 : "Research Assistant", Department of Physiology, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
June 1990 : "Research Visitor", Center for Research in Special Environments, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
March 1999 – February 2002 Honorary Professor (equivalent to Full Professor, without salary), Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Alsager UK.
Luglio 2009 – December 2013 Honorary Professor, Istituto di Bioimmagini e Fisiologia Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano
LANGUAGES
Italian (mother tongue), English, French, Spanish (notions).
MEMBERSHIP
1. The Physiological Society.
2. Società Italiana di Fisiologia.
3 Société Suisse de Physiologie
4. European College of Sport Science
6. Società Italiana di Scienze Motorie e dello Sport
TEACHING
Courses
November 1983 - May 1985 : Temperature regulation lectures, Human Physiology course, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
December 1985 - June 1992 : Students laboratory in Human Physiology, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
October 1986 – September 2002 : Course of Human Physiology, Ecole d'Education Physique et de Sport, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
October 1987 – June 1999 : Course of Exercise Physiology, Post-doctoral School in Sport Medicine
October 1992 - September 1994 : Organisation of Student Laboratories on Cardiovascular Physiology, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
May 1994 - to date : Organisation of Student Laboratories on Respiration, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
October 1994 – December 2013 : Course of Respiration Physiology, School of Nurses, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
April 1995 - to date : Member of “Respiration Unit”, Problem-based Learning of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Tutor in the same unit.
March 1996 – June 2000 : Member of “Locomotion Unit”, Problem-based Learning of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Tutor in the same unit.
March 1999 - to date : Co-chairman of “Respiration Unit”, Problem-based Learning of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
June 1999 – to date : Member “Unit of Synthesis of Module 2 (integration of cardiovascular, respiratory and renal systems)”, Problem-based Learning of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Tutor in the same unit.
November 2001 – September 2002 : Co-chairman of “Corso Integrato di Fisiologia Umana”, The Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy. Teaching of Circulation and Respiration within the same course.
October 2002 – to date Chairman of “Corso Integrato di Fisiologia Umana”, School of Exercise Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy. Teaching of Muscle Physiology (2003), System Physiology (2003), and Exercise and Sport Physiology (since 2003) within the same course.
October 2002 – September 2003 Course of Human Physiology, School of Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
October 2003 – September 2013 Course of Respiration Physiology, School of Pharmacy, University of Geneva (6 hr/year).
October 2003 – to date Course of Metabolic Regulation and Temperature Regulation, School of Pharmacy, University of Geneva (6 hr/year).
October 2004 – to date Course of Biomechanics, School of Exercise Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
October 2004 – to date Course of Respiration, within “Corso Integrato di Fisiologia Umana”, The Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
November 2006 – to date Course on the Physiology of Adaptation to Extreme Environments, within the Master in Medical Exercise Science, School of Medicine, University of Brescia (24 hr/year).
September 2008 – to date Coordinator of the Course of Physiology, School of Pharmacy, University of Geneva.
February 2009 – May 2011 Course on the Physiology of Adaptation to Extreme Environments (in collaboration with Claudio Sartori, Lausanne), within the Master Lémanique en Sciences du Mouvement et du Sport (8 hr/year).
January 2014 – to date Co-Coordinator (together with Prof. Marc Licker), Integration Unit, School of Medicine, 1st year. Course on human locomotion within the same unit (9hr/year)
RESEARCH
Research fields
1. Regulation of cardiovascular and respiratory functions in resting and exercising humans.
2. Human adaptive responses to extreme environments (microgravity, diving, cold)
3. Energetics of muscular exercise in humans.
4. Energetics and biomechanics of human locomotion.
Research grants
1988 - 1990 “Ventilation and gas exchange during exercise transients in normal subjects and heart transplant recipient patients”
FNSRS, FS 96,200, together with Prof. P. Cerretelli.
1988 - 1990 “Effects of Solcoseryl® on extreme endurance exercise in humans”
Solco Basel SA, SF 105,950.
1990 - 1994 “Control of ventilation in heart and lung transplant recipients”
FNSRS, SF 330,414, together with Prof. P. Cerretelli.
1993 - 1996 “Factors limiting oxygen transport in humans”
EFSM, SF 60,000.
1994 - 1995 “Regulation of cardiovascular response to exercise in humans”
ESA-PRODEX, for technical developments, FS 540,000.
1994 - 1997 “Gas exchange and cardiac regulation in heart transplant recipient children”
FNSRS, SF 293,132, together with Prof. P. Cerretelli.
1995 - 1998 “The effects of nicethamide on the ventilatory response to exercise in hypoxia”
Zyma AG, SF 145,930, together with Prof. P. Cerretelli.
1997 - 2000 “Cardiovascular oxygen transport in exercising humans”
FNSRS, SF 184,500.
1998 - 2001 “Evaluation of the energy cost of treadmill tests under varying speed and incline condition in patients with chronic obstructive arteriopathy and claudicatio intermittens”
Sigma-Tau, SF 58,128.
2000 – 2003 “Dynamics of oxygen transport in humans : posture, exercise and hypoxia”
FNSRS, SF 133.000.
2001 – 2003 “Energetic constraints of mounting running”
OFSPO, SF 78.540.
2001 – 2003 “Cardiopulmonary consequences of prolonged bed rest in humans”
FNSRS, SF 74.390
2003 – 2006 “ Effects of gravity acceleration on oxygen uptake, cardiac output and autonomic control of heart function during exercise in humans“
FNSRS, SF 176.118
2006 – 2008 “Determinants of running performance in top-level Kenyan athletes”
OFSPO, SF 83.060
2006 – 2009 “Dynamics of pulmonary gas exchange and systemic oxygen delivery during exercise transients in humans”
FNSRS, SF 260.000
2008 – 2010 “Neurovegetative system and exercise in lung transplant recipients”
MIUR – PRIN, Italy, € 31.500
2009 – 2010 “Safety in SCUBA diving : decompression, bubble formation and evaluation of physiological parameters”
CCM, Italy, € 200.000
2009 – 2012 “Dynamics of pulmonary gas exchange and systemic oxygen delivery
during exercise in patients affected by specific cardiopulmonary diseases”
FNSRS, SF 375.000
2012 – 2015 “Dynamics of cardio-pulmonary response to exercise in patients affected by essential hypertension”
FNSRS, SF 412.267
2013 – 2014 “Smart ECG. A miniaturized device with high energetic efficiency for very-long-term monitoring of ECG: technological, clinical and scientific aspects”
Fondazione EULO, € 23.200
2014 Fondation Carlos et Elsie De Reuter, for equipment acquisition,
SF 30.000
International research contracts
1994 - 1996 European Space Agency, jointly with Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, France, for participation in the 1994 LT-HDT Bed Rest campaign, with experiment ESA/LT/023, entitled “Effects of long term bed rest on the biomechanical and the bioenergetic characteristics of human skeletal muscle and on the factors limiting maximal oxygen consumption”.
1994 - 1996 European Space Agency, for participation in the Euromir 95 programme, with experiment 21-CH, entitled “Regulation of cardiovascular response to exercise in humans”.
1998 - 2002 European Space Agency, for participation in the programme ESA-AO-97-LS-ARMS, as co-investigator of experiment 7-S (P. I. Prof. Dag Linnarsson, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden), entitled “Cardiopulmonary and muscular adaptations during and after microgravity”.
2000 - 2003 European Space Agency, jointly with Centre national d'études spatiales, France, for participation in the programme ESA-AO-99-LS-BR, with the project 001, entitled "Respiratory, circulatory, muscular and bone consequences of inactivity and rehabilitation in humans".
2000 - 2003 European Space Agency, for participation in the programme ESA-AO-2000-LS-BR-SHORT, as co-investigator of project 002 (Principal Investigator : Prof. Carlo Capelli, Università di Udine), entitled "Cardiopulmonary consequences of short term bed rest".
2003 - 2006 European Space Agency, jointly with Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, for participation in the programme ESA-RA-LS-01-LSRA, with the project 067, entitled "Effects of gravity acceleration on oxygen uptake during exercise in human".
2008 – 2009 Italian Space Agency, in collaboration with Primorska University, Kopar, Slovenia, for participation in the prolonged bed rest programme that the two institutions jointly organised in Ankaran, Slovenia, in association with the CCMC research group of the Italian Space Agency.
Editorial activities
September 2009 – to date Distributing editor for Environmental Physiology, European Journal of Applied Physiology
Muscular exercise at high altitude. Edited by G. Ferretti and P. Cerretelli. Int. J. Sports Med. Suppl. 1, 1990.
1. Guest Referee, The Journal of Physiology
2. Guest Referee, American Journal of Physiology
3. Guest Referee, Journal of Applied Physiology
4. Guest Referee, Pflügers Archiv.
5. Guest Referee, European Journal of Applied Physiology.
6. Guest Referee, Respiration Physiology and Neurobiology.
7. Guest Referee, Journal of Experimental Biology.
8. Guest Referee, International Journal of Sports Medicine.
9. Guest Referee, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.
10. Guest Referee, Anesthesiology.
Organisation of meetings and symposia
European College of Sport Science, the Manchester Meeting, July 15-18, 1998. Symposium : PHYSIOLOGY IN SPACE : HOW PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS DEGRADE.
Satellite Course, European College of Sport Science, the Rome meeting, July 13-14, 1999
INTEGRATIVE MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY
Jointly organised by Roberto Bottinelli, Marco Ferrari , Guido Ferretti and Marco Narici
VII IOC World Congress on Sports Science, Athens, October 7-11, 2003 Symposium
COUNTERMEASURES FOR MAN IN SPACE
International Congress “Mountain and Sport”, on the occasion of 10th anniversary of Centro di Bioingegneria e Scienze Motorie, Rovereto, Italy,
Jointly organised by Carlo Capelli, Guido Ferretti, Guido Fumagalli and Federico Schena
Numerous invited conferences in international and national meetings
ADMINISTRATION
In academic context
1999 – 2000 Member of Groupe de Travail Médecine et Sport, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève (chairman Prof. Jean-Philippe Bonjour)
1999 – to date Member of Comité de Programme pour les années 1 – 3, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève
2001 – to date Member of Consiglio di Corso di Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Brescia
2001 – to date Member of Scientific Council of Centro di Bioingegneria e Scienze Motorie, Rovereto, Italy
2002 – to date Member of Consiglio di Corso di Laurea in Scienze Motorie, Università di Brescia
2010 – to date Coordinator, Aggregate School of Specialisation in Sport Medicine of the Universities of Brescia, Milano Bicocca and Pavia, Italy.
2013 – to date Member, Task Force of Health and Wealth at Unibs, University of Brescia
External reviewer for professorial appointments in various universities in the United Kingdo
At the Ministry of Health, Italy
2009 - 2013 Member of Commissione Interministeriale Sanità e Sport (president : Prof. Ferruccio Fazio, State Minister of Health), established by the Ministers of Health and of Sport of the Italian Republic, aimed at setting up a project for the introduction of exercise as a preventive and therapeutic tool in the Italian Health System.
2009 - 2011 Personal councellor of the Minister of Health for sport items.
2011 – to date Consultant of Consiglio Superiore di Sanità, Minister of Health, Italian Republic, for sport issues.
Scientific functions for other institutions
Referee, Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique
Referee, Commission de recherche, Office fédéral du sport de Macolin.
Referee, Projets thématiques, Région Rhône-Alpes, France
Referee, Programmi di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica, Italia
Referee, Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Member of reviewing committee, European Space Agency, ESA-AO-2004
Member of the panel of experts established by the European Space Agency for the definition of scientific priorities to be set in the Life Science 5-year Plan, ELIPSE, for the period 2009-2014.
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
NAME : FERRETTI
FIRST NAME : Guido
NATIONALITY : Italian
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH : Torino, Italie, March 18th 1956
CIVIL STATUS : Married
Wife : Silvia Spinazzé, born in Milano, 18-12-1959
Children : Lavinia Ferretti, born in Aosta, 21-5-1994
Livio Ferretti, born in Aosta, 5-12-1995 Lapo Ferretti, born in Aosta, 27-2-1999
ADDRESS IN GENEVA : 26C, Chemin de Carabot, CH-1232 CONFIGNON
ADDRESS IN AOSTA Via Croce di Città 82, I-11100 AOSTA
CONTACTS
tel GE +41-22-3795363 fax +41-22-3795402
tel BS +39-030-3717440, fax +39-030-3717443
tel home CH +41-22-7571474
tel home IT +39-0165-43935
mobile CH +41-76-5625363
mobile IT +39-329-1056584
e-mail Guido.Ferretti@unige.ch
ferretti@med.unibs.it
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Physiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Science, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy (part time)
and
Professor of Clinical Physiology, Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, Centre Médical Universitaire, Université de Genève, Switzerland (part time)
EDUCATION
July 1974 : Maturità Classica, Liceo C. Beccaria, Milano,
Italie.
July 1981 : Medicine Doctor, Università di Milano,
Italy.
July 1984 : Post-doctoral degree in Sports Medicine (cum laude), Università di Milano, Italy.
January 1998 : Habilitation in Human Physiology, School of
Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
January 1979 - October 1981 : MD Student, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Università di Milano, Italy.
November 1981 - October 1983 : Collaboratore Professionale, Department of Biomedical Technologies, School of Medicine, Università di Milano, Italy.
November 1983 - May 1985 : Assistant, Institute of Human Physiology, School of Medicine, Università di Brescia, Italy.
June 1985 - September 1988 : Assistant, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
October 1988 - January 1992 : Maître Assistant, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
February 1992 – September 2003 : Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland (part time since 2002)
November 2001 – October 2012 : Professor of Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnologies, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy (part time)
October 2003 – December 2013 : Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche, Department of Basic Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland (part time since 2002)
November 2012 – to date : Professor of Physiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Science, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy (part time)
January 2014 – to date : Professor of Clinical Physiology, Department of Basic Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland (part time)
SOJOURNS IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS
October 1979 - December 1979 : "Student Visitor", Department of Physiology, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
September 1980 - December 1980 : "Research Assistant", Department of Physiology, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
June 1990 : "Research Visitor", Center for Research in Special Environments, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
March 1999 – February 2002 Honorary Professor (equivalent to Full Professor, without salary), Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Alsager UK.
Luglio 2009 – December 2013 Honorary Professor, Istituto di Bioimmagini e Fisiologia Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano
LANGUAGES
Italian (mother tongue), English, French, Spanish (notions).
MEMBERSHIP
1. The Physiological Society.
2. Società Italiana di Fisiologia.
3 Société Suisse de Physiologie
4. European College of Sport Science
6. Società Italiana di Scienze Motorie e dello Sport
TEACHING
Courses
November 1983 - May 1985 : Temperature regulation lectures, Human Physiology course, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
December 1985 - June 1992 : Students laboratory in Human Physiology, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
October 1986 – September 2002 : Course of Human Physiology, Ecole d'Education Physique et de Sport, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
October 1987 – June 1999 : Course of Exercise Physiology, Post-doctoral School in Sport Medicine
October 1992 - September 1994 : Organisation of Student Laboratories on Cardiovascular Physiology, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
May 1994 - to date : Organisation of Student Laboratories on Respiration, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
October 1994 – December 2013 : Course of Respiration Physiology, School of Nurses, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
April 1995 - to date : Member of “Respiration Unit”, Problem-based Learning of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Tutor in the same unit.
March 1996 – June 2000 : Member of “Locomotion Unit”, Problem-based Learning of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Tutor in the same unit.
March 1999 - to date : Co-chairman of “Respiration Unit”, Problem-based Learning of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
June 1999 – to date : Member “Unit of Synthesis of Module 2 (integration of cardiovascular, respiratory and renal systems)”, Problem-based Learning of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Tutor in the same unit.
November 2001 – September 2002 : Co-chairman of “Corso Integrato di Fisiologia Umana”, The Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy. Teaching of Circulation and Respiration within the same course.
October 2002 – to date Chairman of “Corso Integrato di Fisiologia Umana”, School of Exercise Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy. Teaching of Muscle Physiology (2003), System Physiology (2003), and Exercise and Sport Physiology (since 2003) within the same course.
October 2002 – September 2003 Course of Human Physiology, School of Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
October 2003 – September 2013 Course of Respiration Physiology, School of Pharmacy, University of Geneva (6 hr/year).
October 2003 – to date Course of Metabolic Regulation and Temperature Regulation, School of Pharmacy, University of Geneva (6 hr/year).
October 2004 – to date Course of Biomechanics, School of Exercise Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
October 2004 – to date Course of Respiration, within “Corso Integrato di Fisiologia Umana”, The Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy.
November 2006 – to date Course on the Physiology of Adaptation to Extreme Environments, within the Master in Medical Exercise Science, School of Medicine, University of Brescia (24 hr/year).
September 2008 – to date Coordinator of the Course of Physiology, School of Pharmacy, University of Geneva.
February 2009 – May 2011 Course on the Physiology of Adaptation to Extreme Environments (in collaboration with Claudio Sartori, Lausanne), within the Master Lémanique en Sciences du Mouvement et du Sport (8 hr/year).
January 2014 – to date Co-Coordinator (together with Prof. Marc Licker), Integration Unit, School of Medicine, 1st year. Course on human locomotion within the same unit (9hr/year)
RESEARCH
Research fields
1. Regulation of cardiovascular and respiratory functions in resting and exercising humans.
2. Human adaptive responses to extreme environments (microgravity, diving, cold)
3. Energetics of muscular exercise in humans.
4. Energetics and biomechanics of human locomotion.
Research grants
1988 - 1990 “Ventilation and gas exchange during exercise transients in normal subjects and heart transplant recipient patients”
FNSRS, FS 96,200, together with Prof. P. Cerretelli.
1988 - 1990 “Effects of Solcoseryl® on extreme endurance exercise in humans”
Solco Basel SA, SF 105,950.
1990 - 1994 “Control of ventilation in heart and lung transplant recipients”
FNSRS, SF 330,414, together with Prof. P. Cerretelli.
1993 - 1996 “Factors limiting oxygen transport in humans”
EFSM, SF 60,000.
1994 - 1995 “Regulation of cardiovascular response to exercise in humans”
ESA-PRODEX, for technical developments, FS 540,000.
1994 - 1997 “Gas exchange and cardiac regulation in heart transplant recipient children”
FNSRS, SF 293,132, together with Prof. P. Cerretelli.
1995 - 1998 “The effects of nicethamide on the ventilatory response to exercise in hypoxia”
Zyma AG, SF 145,930, together with Prof. P. Cerretelli.
1997 - 2000 “Cardiovascular oxygen transport in exercising humans”
FNSRS, SF 184,500.
1998 - 2001 “Evaluation of the energy cost of treadmill tests under varying speed and incline condition in patients with chronic obstructive arteriopathy and claudicatio intermittens”
Sigma-Tau, SF 58,128.
2000 – 2003 “Dynamics of oxygen transport in humans : posture, exercise and hypoxia”
FNSRS, SF 133.000.
2001 – 2003 “Energetic constraints of mounting running”
OFSPO, SF 78.540.
2001 – 2003 “Cardiopulmonary consequences of prolonged bed rest in humans”
FNSRS, SF 74.390
2003 – 2006 “ Effects of gravity acceleration on oxygen uptake, cardiac output and autonomic control of heart function during exercise in humans“
FNSRS, SF 176.118
2006 – 2008 “Determinants of running performance in top-level Kenyan athletes”
OFSPO, SF 83.060
2006 – 2009 “Dynamics of pulmonary gas exchange and systemic oxygen delivery during exercise transients in humans”
FNSRS, SF 260.000
2008 – 2010 “Neurovegetative system and exercise in lung transplant recipients”
MIUR – PRIN, Italy, € 31.500
2009 – 2010 “Safety in SCUBA diving : decompression, bubble formation and evaluation of physiological parameters”
CCM, Italy, € 200.000
2009 – 2012 “Dynamics of pulmonary gas exchange and systemic oxygen delivery
during exercise in patients affected by specific cardiopulmonary diseases”
FNSRS, SF 375.000
2012 – 2015 “Dynamics of cardio-pulmonary response to exercise in patients affected by essential hypertension”
FNSRS, SF 412.267
2013 – 2014 “Smart ECG. A miniaturized device with high energetic efficiency for very-long-term monitoring of ECG: technological, clinical and scientific aspects”
Fondazione EULO, € 23.200
2014 Fondation Carlos et Elsie De Reuter, for equipment acquisition,
SF 30.000
International research contracts
1994 - 1996 European Space Agency, jointly with Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, France, for participation in the 1994 LT-HDT Bed Rest campaign, with experiment ESA/LT/023, entitled “Effects of long term bed rest on the biomechanical and the bioenergetic characteristics of human skeletal muscle and on the factors limiting maximal oxygen consumption”.
1994 - 1996 European Space Agency, for participation in the Euromir 95 programme, with experiment 21-CH, entitled “Regulation of cardiovascular response to exercise in humans”.
1998 - 2002 European Space Agency, for participation in the programme ESA-AO-97-LS-ARMS, as co-investigator of experiment 7-S (P. I. Prof. Dag Linnarsson, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden), entitled “Cardiopulmonary and muscular adaptations during and after microgravity”.
2000 - 2003 European Space Agency, jointly with Centre national d'études spatiales, France, for participation in the programme ESA-AO-99-LS-BR, with the project 001, entitled "Respiratory, circulatory, muscular and bone consequences of inactivity and rehabilitation in humans".
2000 - 2003 European Space Agency, for participation in the programme ESA-AO-2000-LS-BR-SHORT, as co-investigator of project 002 (Principal Investigator : Prof. Carlo Capelli, Università di Udine), entitled "Cardiopulmonary consequences of short term bed rest".
2003 - 2006 European Space Agency, jointly with Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, for participation in the programme ESA-RA-LS-01-LSRA, with the project 067, entitled "Effects of gravity acceleration on oxygen uptake during exercise in human".
2008 – 2009 Italian Space Agency, in collaboration with Primorska University, Kopar, Slovenia, for participation in the prolonged bed rest programme that the two institutions jointly organised in Ankaran, Slovenia, in association with the CCMC research group of the Italian Space Agency.
Editorial activities
September 2009 – to date Distributing editor for Environmental Physiology, European Journal of Applied Physiology
Muscular exercise at high altitude. Edited by G. Ferretti and P. Cerretelli. Int. J. Sports Med. Suppl. 1, 1990.
1. Guest Referee, The Journal of Physiology
2. Guest Referee, American Journal of Physiology
3. Guest Referee, Journal of Applied Physiology
4. Guest Referee, Pflügers Archiv.
5. Guest Referee, European Journal of Applied Physiology.
6. Guest Referee, Respiration Physiology and Neurobiology.
7. Guest Referee, Journal of Experimental Biology.
8. Guest Referee, International Journal of Sports Medicine.
9. Guest Referee, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.
10. Guest Referee, Anesthesiology.
Organisation of meetings and symposia
European College of Sport Science, the Manchester Meeting, July 15-18, 1998. Symposium : PHYSIOLOGY IN SPACE : HOW PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS DEGRADE.
Satellite Course, European College of Sport Science, the Rome meeting, July 13-14, 1999
INTEGRATIVE MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY
Jointly organised by Roberto Bottinelli, Marco Ferrari , Guido Ferretti and Marco Narici
VII IOC World Congress on Sports Science, Athens, October 7-11, 2003 Symposium
COUNTERMEASURES FOR MAN IN SPACE
International Congress “Mountain and Sport”, on the occasion of 10th anniversary of Centro di Bioingegneria e Scienze Motorie, Rovereto, Italy,
Jointly organised by Carlo Capelli, Guido Ferretti, Guido Fumagalli and Federico Schena
Numerous invited conferences in international and national meetings
ADMINISTRATION
In academic context
1999 – 2000 Member of Groupe de Travail Médecine et Sport, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève (chairman Prof. Jean-Philippe Bonjour)
1999 – to date Member of Comité de Programme pour les années 1 – 3, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève
2001 – to date Member of Consiglio di Corso di Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Brescia
2001 – to date Member of Scientific Council of Centro di Bioingegneria e Scienze Motorie, Rovereto, Italy
2002 – to date Member of Consiglio di Corso di Laurea in Scienze Motorie, Università di Brescia
2010 – to date Coordinator, Aggregate School of Specialisation in Sport Medicine of the Universities of Brescia, Milano Bicocca and Pavia, Italy.
2013 – to date Member, Task Force of Health and Wealth at Unibs, University of Brescia
External reviewer for professorial appointments in various universities in the United Kingdo
At the Ministry of Health, Italy
2009 - 2013 Member of Commissione Interministeriale Sanità e Sport (president : Prof. Ferruccio Fazio, State Minister of Health), established by the Ministers of Health and of Sport of the Italian Republic, aimed at setting up a project for the introduction of exercise as a preventive and therapeutic tool in the Italian Health System.
2009 - 2011 Personal councellor of the Minister of Health for sport items.
2011 – to date Consultant of Consiglio Superiore di Sanità, Minister of Health, Italian Republic, for sport issues.
Scientific functions for other institutions
Referee, Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique
Referee, Commission de recherche, Office fédéral du sport de Macolin.
Referee, Projets thématiques, Région Rhône-Alpes, France
Referee, Programmi di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica, Italia
Referee, Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Member of reviewing committee, European Space Agency, ESA-AO-2004
Member of the panel of experts established by the European Space Agency for the definition of scientific priorities to be set in the Life Science 5-year Plan, ELIPSE, for the period 2009-2014.
Fields (2)
Free text keywords
EXERCISE; SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTS; CARDIO-PULMONARY SYSTEM; ENERGETICS; HUMANS
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Research fields
1. Regulation of cardiovascular and respiratory functions in resting and exercising humans.
2. Human adaptive responses to extreme environments (microgravity, diving, cold)
3. Energetics of muscular exercise in humans.
4. Energetics and biomechanics of human locomotion.
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