About Us
Riccardo Polosa is full professor of Internal Medicine at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the University of Catania, and an Italian Respiratory Physician, Clinical Immunologist, Allergist and Rheumatologist.
He is actively involved in smoking prevention and cessation. Indeed, he established the first Sicilian center for smoking cessation at the University of Catania in 2002.
In 2003, he founded the Italian Antismoking Association (LIAF), which he directed for 5 years.
In 2018, Polosa established, together with 38 academics, the Center of Excellence for the acceleration of HArm Reduction (CoEHAR) at the University of Catania, a unique multi-disciplinary research centre with the mission to reduce health impacts and deaths from smoking, locally and globally.
In the area of in tobacco control and prevention, he has been the most prolific author in the field of electronic cigarettes – according to a paper published in BMC Public Health. He is the lead author of ECLAT- first randomized controlled trial in the world about effectiveness and tolerability of e-cigarettes.
Giovanni Li Volti is full professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences of the University of Catania.
Soon after the graduation in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Catania in 2000, he attended the Department of Pharmacology at the New York Medical College, and in 2005 he obtained the title of PhD in Pediatric Sciences at the University of Catania.
In 2006, he was research fellow at the Department of Anatomy of the University of Brescia.
Prof. Li Volti has received numerous national and international awards for his research activity:
September 2002: Aventis Pharma New Investigator Award for U.S. Fellow
November 2002: Toscano-Scuderi Award (University of Catania, Italy)
August 2004: Young Investigator Travel Award at the European Society of Neurochemistry
September 2009: Travel award at the International Heme Oxygenase meeting, Miami (FL)
June 2010: Young Scientist Award FEBS meeting.
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Rossella Cacciola
Aldo Calogero
Lucia Frittitta
Sandro La Vignera
Venerando Rapisarda
Renata Rizzo
Laura Sciacca
Paolo Vigneri
Lucia Spicuzza
Davide Campagna
Antonino Di Pino
Salvatore Piro
Rosalia Emma
Agostino Gaudio
Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences
Massimo Caruso
Pio Maria Furneri
Giovanni Li Volti
Maria Santagati
Angela Maria Amorini
Department of Chemical Sciences
Salvatore Failla
Giuseppe Grasso
Cristina Satriano
Other Departments
Pasquale Caponnetto
Francesco Nocera
Rosario Faraci
Venera Tomaselli
Antonio Biondi
Giovanni Gallo
Sebastiano Battiato
Emma Cacciola
Margherita Ferrante
Adriana Ciancio
Maria Catena Quattropani
Department of Clinical and Experimental medicine
Riccardo POLOSA (Founder) – Salvatore ALAIMO – Gaetano BERTINO – Rossella CACCIOLA – Bruno Santi CACOPARDO – Aldo E. CALOGERO – Rosita A. CONDORELLI – Francesco FRASCA – Lucia FRITTITTA – Sandro LA VIGNERA – Alfredo PULVIRENTI – Venerando RAPISARDA – Renata RIZZO – Martino RUGGIERI – Laura SCIACCA – Maria Salvina SIGNORELLI – Paolo VIGNERI – Luca ZANOLI – Caterina LEDDA – Davide CAMPAGNA – Lucia SPICUZZA – Antonino DI PINO – Salvatore PIRO – Rosalia EMMA – Agostino GAUDIO
Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Advanced Technology
Antonio Giuseppe BIONDI – Alberto BIANCHI – Antonio LONGO – Eugenio PEDULLÁ – Rosalia Maria LEONARDI – Giuseppe PALAZZO – Stefano PALMUCCI
Department of Economics and Business
Department of Law
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering
Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences
Carmelina Daniela ANFUSO – Massimo CARUSO – Filippo DRAGO – Pio Maria FURNERI – Fabio GALVANO – Francesca GUARINO – Giuseppe LAZZARINO – Giovanni LI VOLTI – Gabriella LUPO – Ignazio BARBAGALLO– Rosalba PARENTI – Maria SANTAGATI – Daniele TIBULLO – Angela Maria AMORINI – Agata ZAPPALA’
Department of Chemical Sciences
Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies
Emma CACCIOLA – Salvatore FERLITO – Margherita FERRANTE – Gea OLIVERI CONTI
Department of Educational Sciences
Brahim BENHAMOU (Cadi Ayyad University, Marocco)
Maria Luisa BRANDI (Dip. Scienze Biomediche, Sperimentali e Cliniche – Università di Firenze)
Fabio CIBELLA (Istituto per la Ricerca e l’Innovazione Biomedica IRIB del CNR – Palermo)
Jennifer DIPIAZZA (City University of New York, USA)
Emmanuele Angelo Francesco JANNINI (Dip. Medicina dei Sistemi – Università Roma Tor Vergata)
Mario MALERBA (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
Karin Helen O’LEARY (PhD in Sociologia della University of Victoria, Canada)
Giuseppe RONSISVALLE (Università di Catania – in quiescenza)
Marco TATULLO (Tecnologica Research Institute e Marrelli Health – Crotone)
Vladislav VOLAREVIC (Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Serbia)
Costanza Nicolosi (Research fellow, University of Catania)
Virginia Fuochi (Research fellow, University of Catania)
Manish Panchasara (SkillsEdge, Indore, India)
Maurizio Di Mauro (University of Catania – in retirement)
Alfredo Ferro (Professor Emeritus – University of Catania)
Francesco Rapisarda (University of Catania – in retirement)
Santo Di Nuovo (University of Catania – in retirement)
Francesco Purrello (University of Catania – in retirement)
Luigi La Via (AOUP “G. Rodolico – San Marco” of Catania)
Antonino Belfiore (University of Catania – in retirement)
Francesco Basile (University of Catania – in retirement)
Luigi Marletta (University of Catania – in retirement)
Rossella Cannarella (AOUP “G. Rodolico – San Marco” of Catania)
Administration
The Consortium
CoEHAR includes the local “Center for Tobacco Prevention and treatment” and a Clinical Research Organization, with their laboratories of microbiology and molecular biology.
CoEHAR actions on advocacy, training and education, awareness campaigns, are supported by the Italian Anti-Smoking League, LIAF (Lega Italiana Anti Fumo) and ECLAT, a spin-off of the University of Catania.
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Our Partners
