Dario Rusciano
University of Catania, Italy
Biography
Dario Rusciano has completed his PhD at University of Catania, Italy in 1979. He has been involved as Post-doctorate and Project Leader in basic research on cancer metastasis at the Sclavo pharmaceutical company of Siena, Italy from 1982 to 1989 and then at the Friedrich Miescher Institute of Basel, Switzerland until the year 2000. He then shifted his interests towards translational research in ophthalmology, working as lab leader for the next 7 years in SIFI, a pharmaceutical company based in Sicily, Italy and then at Sooft, another pharmaceutical company now owned by Fidia Pharmaceuticals, Abano Terme, Italy, where he has been appointed as Scientific Director.