Ele Ferrannini MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa School of Medicine, and Senior Research Associate, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, ItalyEle Ferrannini, MD, is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Pisa and Senior Research Associate of the CNR (National Research Council) Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa. He has published >700 original papers in the field of diabetes, metabolism and hypertension, and several reviews and textbook chapters.
His current research areas include insulin resistance and atherosclerosis; pathophysiology of insulin secretion; pathogenesis of insulin hypersecretion in obesity and effects of weight loss; coronary atherosclerosis in diabetes; pathogenesis of the microvascular dysfunction and proteinuria in adult-onset diabetes.