«I extend my best wishes for good work to new president of Aifa Robert Giovanni Nisticò. I am sure that with his professional background he will be able to competently lead the new AIFA, a strategic body for the entire NHS and fundamental for the protection of people’s health”. The Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, declared this in a note.
Robert Giovanni Nisticò will therefore lead the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) for the next 5 years. A month and a half after the resignation of the virologist Giorgio Palù, the conferences of the Regions, State-Regions and Unified gave a favorable opinion to the proposal of the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci.
The profile
Born in 1974, born in London but raised in Italy, Robert Giovanni Nisticò is the son of the pharmacologist Giuseppe known as Pino, former undersecretary of Health in the first Berlusconi government, president of the Calabria Region from 1995 to 1998 and member of the European Parliament.
He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of Rome with a specialization in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology achieved at the same university.
“Nisticò – writes Milano Finanza – is considered close to Forza Italia for family reasons and for academic reasons close to Minister Schillaci, former rector of the Tor Vergata university from which he also comes”. For the nomination he also received the support of the League through the approval of the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti and of the Conference of the Regions led by the president of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region Massimiliano Fedriga.
Nisticò was first a researcher and then an associate professor of Pharmacology in the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Calabria. He was an extraordinary professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine of the University of Rome La Sapienza and since 2015 he has been an associate professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Biology of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he teaches general pharmacology and toxicology, neuropsychopharmacology.
At the University of Rome Tor Vergata he is also president of the single-cycle master’s degree course in Pharmacy.
Occhiuto: “Proud of the new president Nisticò, Calabrian talent”
”It fills us with pride that Robert Giovanni Nisticò has become the new president of Aifa, the Italian Medicines Agency. A professional with recognized qualities, a pharmacologist and academic of international level, a Calabrian talent called to carry out a role of great responsibility and to lead a fundamental body for the country’s health policies. In this moment of satisfaction, it is impossible for us not to think of his father, the former president of our Region Giuseppe Nisticò, a person dear to me who will be rejoicing for this beautiful achievement.
I express my sincere and affectionate wishes for good work to the new president of AIFA.”
Thus Roberto Occhiuto, president of the Calabria Region and deputy national secretary of Forza Italia.
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