Enrico Heffler

 Allergologia ed Immunologia Clinica

 AO Mauriziano "Umberto I"

 Largo Turati 62

 10128 – Torino

 Italy

 Tel.: +39-0115082155

 Fax.: +39-0115682588

 enrico_heffler@yahoo.it

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I studied medicine in Torino (Italy) and Maastricht (The Netherlands) where I followed the courses of my fourth year curriculum of study. I obtained the medical degree in Torino with a final thesis about "Inflammatory airway involvement in primary biliary cirrhosis" that was the result of a two-year training at the Department of Allergy ad Clinical Immunology of University of Torino, directed by Professor Giovanni Rolla. Just after my degree, I was actively involved in several research projects most of them about exhaled and nasal nitric oxide in several diseases such as rhinitis, asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis, anaphylaxis and renal failure. Most of the research projects in which I was involved have been published on international peer-reviewed journals.

In 2006/07 I attended a long-term European Respiratory Society (ERS) fellowship at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester (UK), under the supervision of Professor Ian Pavord, with a research project about the link betweek obesity, airway inflammation and asthma. During this fellowship I also had the opportunity to deepen my knowledge about TNF-a axis in the pathogenesis of asthma.

In 2008 I obtained the specialization degree in "Allergy and Clinical Immunology" with a final mark of 70/70 at University of Torino, Italy.

My current research interests are: airway inflammation and airway involvement in nasal polyposis, in vasculitidis (i.e.: Churg Strauss Syndrome); the link between exhaled nitric oxide and other non-invasive markers of inflammation and asthma control; the link between airway inflammation, viral infections and asthma exacerbations; and food allergy, particularly buckwheat allergy.

Since April 2006 I'm the National Coordinator of Junior Members of Italian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (SIAIC).