Giuseppe Giorgini
President and Chief Executive Officer

Giuseppe Giorgini was appointed CEO and Chairman of the Board in January 2006. Since 1979 he has held several roles in marketing and general management, working for leading domestic and international pharmaceutical companies, as well as starting up the Italian subsidiaries for Amgen and Fournier.
Giuseppe was Managing Director at Amgen Italy until December 2005.He is currently serving as Vice President of Assobiotech. For more than 12 years he was active within the pharmaceutical trade association (Farmindustria) where he was a member of the Council and Chairman of the Biotech Group until December 2005.


Nicolò Manaresi
Chief Technology Officer

Nicolò Manaresi was a co-founder of Silicon Biosystems and served as its president and CEO through the early stages of the company. Prior to founding Silicon Biosystems,Dr. Manaresi was a research fellow at the University of Bologna and a long-time consultant to STMicroelectronics in the field of innovative sensors based on Microelectronic technologies. He received a Degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1993 and 1999, respectively. In 1996 he spent one year as a Research assistantat the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. He is co-author of more than 40 scientific papers, one of which - “A CMOS Chip for Individual Cell Manipulation and Detection” - received the IEEE 2003 International Solid Circuit Conference Jan Van Vessem Award for outstanding European papers . He is a co-inventor behind more than 12 European and US Patents.

Gianni Medoro
Chief Scientific Officer

Gianni Medoro was a co-founder of Silicon Biosystems and has served as its CSO ever since. He is the inventor of the core technology patent on Moving DEP cages, and co-inventor in several other company patents. He took his Degree (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of Bologna, Italy. He is co-author of more than 30 scientific papers among which “A CMOS Chip for Individual Cell Manipulation and Detection received the IEEE 2003 International Solid Circuit Conference Jan Van Vessem Award for outstanding European papers.
 
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