Gennaro Maietta
Pignatelli Institute, Italy
Biography
Gennaro Maietta graduated from Faculty of Medicine of the University of Florence in 1981 and he received Post-graduate degree in Clinical Immunology and Allergology at School of Immunology of Prof. Ricci in 1984. During his Postgraduate course, he focused his interests in “Thyroid autoimmunity and in thyroid stimulating antibodies detection on FTRL5 cells”. He became the Head of Allergy Unit of Public Health department in City of Lecce (Italy) and the Head of the Laboratory of Immunology of Pignatelli Institute in the same city. He is interested in Basophils and their role in allergic disease. He is member of EAACI and of AAIITO (Italian Allergy and Immunology Society) and, he is the coordinator of the regional section of AAIITO in Apulia.
Abstract
Abstract : Basophil activation test as biomarker of allergic desensitization