Professor Mauro Picardo is a Professor of Dermatology at the UNICAMILLUS International University and a clinical researcher at the Istituto Dermopatico Immacolata in Rome, Italy. He was trained at the Rome University “La Sapienza.” Professor Picardo was the director of the Cutaneous Physiopathology Laboratory and Integrated Center of Metabolomic Research and Scientific Director at the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome. His main topics of interest are skin biochemistry and metabolism, free radicals mediated damage, skin lipidomics, mechanism of control of skin pigmentation, pigmentary disorders, particularly Vitiligo and Melasma acne, and related disorders. He has served on the board and as president of national (SIDEMAST) and international (EIS, ESDR, ESPCR, IFPCS) scientific societies, in collaboration with Professor Alain Taieb, chair of the Vitiligo European Task Force and the Pigmentary Disorders group of the EADV. He has organized several national and international conferences, including the First Vitiligo International Symposium in Rome in 2016. Professor Picardo co-edited the textbook Vitiligo (Springer-Nature) with Alai Taieb and is an editorial board member of dermatological and biochemical journals, a reviewer at hoc of multiple scientific journals, and an author of more than 380 publications in peer-reviewed journals (H index 67) and more than 30 chapters in different books.

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