Giuseppe Saglio, MD

Professor of Internal Medicine
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences
University of Turin
Turin, Italy

Dr. Giuseppe Saglio is Professor of Internal Medicine and Haematology at the University of Turin.  He is Director of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Targeted Therapy and responsible for the Division of Internal Medicine and Haematology at San Luigi Hospital (University of Turin) .  He graduated from the University of Turin in 1975.  Since then he has studied Internal Medicine at the University of Turin (1975-1980), Haematology at the University of Milan (1980-983) and Molecular Biology at the University of Leiden (1976), Inserm-Creteil, Paris (1979) and the University of California (1983).

Dr. Saglio is co-ordinator of the PhD programme in molecular medicine at the University of Turin, past-president of the Italian Society of Experimental Haematology (SIES) and is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Turin.  He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of molecular pathogenesis of haematological malignancies (1986-present), molecular medicine applied to clinical medicine (1978-1990) and the molecular basis of thalassemia and related haemoglobinopathies (1978-1990).