Massimo CIRILLO | Curriculum

1982-92 Research Fellow
1982, 84-85, 87-88: “Federico II” University, Napoli;
1983: University of Paris, France;
1986: University of Milan;
1989-92: Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

1993-2002 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA

since 2000 Associate Professor of Nephrology
2000-2010: Second University of Naples;
since 2011: University of Salerno.

2014
National Academic Qualification as Full Professor

Publications
The search engine PubMed provides evidence of more than 200 publications of Prof. Cirillo in major international journals of medicine, nephrology and hypertension with inclusion of New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, British Medical Journal, JAMA, Circulation, Archives of Internal Medicine, Hypertension, Kidney International, Circulation Research, Endocrinology, Journal of Hypertension,  etc. 
List of 10 best papers:
JAMA in stampa, 10.1001/jama.2014.6634 
THE LANCET in stampa, 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60497-9 
THE LANCET in stampa, 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60696-6 
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 2013, 346, 1-14, 10.1136/bmj.f324 
THE LANCET 2012, 380: 1662-1673, 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61350-6 
JAMA 2012, 308: 2349, 10.1001/jama.2012.16817 
THE LANCET 2012, 380: 1649 – 1661, 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61272-0 
JAMA 2012, 307: 1941 - 1951 
THE LANCET 2010, 375: 2073 – 2081, 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60674-5 
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 2008, 359: 864-866

Citations
The search engine Google Scholar provides evidence of more than 9000 citations of publications of Prof. Cirillo. H-index=42.

Reviewer
Reviewer for the major international journals of medicine, nephrology and hypertension with inclusion of New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Archives of Internal Medicine, Circulation, Journal of American Society of Nephrology, Hypertension, Kidney International, American Journal of Kidney Disease, Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology, Journal of Hypertension, Circulation Research, Endocrinology, etc.
Reviewer for the National Agency for Evaluation of University and Research (Agenzia Nazionale Valutazione Università e Ricerca, ANVUR, VQR) and for the Secretariat of Instruction, University, and Research (Ministero Istruzione Università e Ricerca, MIUR, PRIN).

Research Projects
- Principal Investigator "STUDIO DI GUBBIO", population-based epidemiological study (general population).
- Investigator of the "CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE - PROGNOSIS CONSORTIUM", international meta-analysis on chronic kideny disease (http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/chronic-kidney-disease-prognosis-consortium/).
- Investigator of the "GLOBAL BURDEN DISEASE STUDY 2013", international epidemiological meta-analysis or morbidity and mortality (https://www.healthdata.org/gbd).
- Principal Investigator of BONE-MUSCLE CHECK program, research of aerospace medicine in International Space Station in  collaboration with NASA, sponsored by Italian Space Agency (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/312.html).
- Principal Investigator of the program "INTERACTION KIDNEY – PARATHYROID GLANDS: RELATIONSHIPS WITH  MINERALIZATION OF BONE AND OTHER TISSUES" sponsored by Italian Space Agency.

since 2006 “Expert” (Nephrology - Hypertension) of 
              European Medicines Agency (EMA)
              Italian Drug Agency (Agenzia Italiana del FArmaco, AIFA)
Main assessment procedures for which he is or has been responsible: 
- aliskiren
- double blockade of renin-angiotensin system
- tolvaptan in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease  
- ferric citrate in hyperphosphatemia
- asfotase alfa in hypofosfatasia