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Professor Chiellini is a Professor of fundaments of chemical technology (Polymer chemistry and organic chemistry) at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pisa and he is the President of the PhD course in Biomaterials of the PhD school in Molecular Biosciences (BIOS-School). He is the founder of the Laboratory of Bioactive Polymeric Materials for Biomedical & Environmental Applications (BIOlab) that has been selected as National Centre of Reference for Biomaterials within the Interuniversity National Consortium for Materials Science & Technology (INSTM). Prof. Chiellini has held a position for more than 10 years of adviser in a promotional scientific and training program supported by UNIDO for the Sustainable Development and Plastic waste management in Emerging Countries and Countries in Transition. He is author of more than 450 publications in peer reviewed journals. He is editor of 22 books, and is holding 25 patents in the field of polymer  science and technology. The team leaded, by Prof Chiellini, consisting of 6 permanent staff and 40-45 students and postdocs is distinguished for being very interdisciplinary. It comprises indeed researchers with scientific and technical background in polymer science & technology, organic chemistry, materials science, biotech & chemical engineering, pharmaceutical technology, computational chemistry, molecular & cellular biology. Pisa, as a partner, will deal with polymer preparation and characterization and scaffold fabrication.

Relevant background publications in 2008-9: 
1) F. Signori, R. Solaro, E. Chiellini, Micelles from new biodegradable amphiphilic block copolymers containing PEG and PCL, J. Controlled Release, 101, 379 (2005), 
2) A Krzan, S Hemjinda, S Miertus, A Corti, E Chiellini, Standardization and Certification in the area of Environmentally Degradable Plastics, Polym. Degr. Stab., 91 (12), 2819 (2006), 
3) F. Chiellini, D. Dinucci, C. Bartoli, A.M. Piras, E. Chiellini, Intracellular Fate Investigation of Bioeliminable Polymeric Nanoparticles by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, J.Bioact.Compat.Polym., 22, 667 (2007).