Camilo Ricordi MD

Summary

• Camillo Ricordi, M.D. is Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Miami, Florida, where he serves as Director of the Cell Transplant Center and Director Emeritus of the Diabetes Research Institute
  
  Ricordi has received numerous honors and awards, including the World Prize in Surgery (University of Geneva), the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award by the American Diabetes Association, was Knighted by the President of the Republic of Italy. He was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors USA, for contributing outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society, and was appointed to the Supreme Council of Health (Consiglio Superiore di Sanita’) by the Ministry of Health of Italy. In 2023, he was awarded the Leonardo Da Vinci Award (co-shared with Nobel Prize winners Yamanaka and Semenza - Taormina TaoBuk) and the Venice Golden Lion Award.
  
  Ricordi contributed over 1,170 publications, that received over 54,000 citations, has 115 H-index.
  
  In 2022 he published the best-seller book “IL CODICE DELLA LONGEVITÀ SANA” now available also in its English edition: “THE HEALTHSPAN CODE” (Amazon.com).