Roberto Biondi
National Institute for the Health of Mother and Child, Romania
Biography
Roberto Biondi completed his undergraduate degree in Medicine and Surgery from University of Perugia, Italy; pursued PhD in Biological Sciences from Pisa University, Pisa, Italy. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Maternal-Fetal Assistance Excellence Unit, of Alessandru Rusescu National Institute for Health of Mother and Child, Bucharest, Romania. He has developed a method on the detection and scavenging of hydroxyl radical via D-phenylalanine hydroxylation in human fluids at the same institute. He has worked on the detection of tetrahydrobiopterin oxidation products in myocardial ischemia and also during chemical oxidation at both Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA.