MONTANO NICOLA

STUDIES:

-Graduated at the School of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milan on November 4, 1988, "summa cum laude".
-Ph.D degree in Clinical Methodology. Title of the thesis: "Adenosine and cardiac sympathetic afferent fibers: possible role in the genesis of cardiac pain". (September 27th,1994)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

1988-1993 Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Center, National Council of Research; Internal Medicine, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
3/1994-5/1997 Research Investigator, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Ospedale L. Sacco, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
5/1997-3/2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Preclinical Science LITA di Vialba, Ospedale L. Sacco, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
3/2002-7/2017 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Milan
7/2017- Full Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
10/2017- Chairman, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health


INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS

4/1995-4/1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA.
1995/1999 Visiting Research Scientist, Laboratory of Human Physiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
25-27/11/2007: Visiting Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinics, Rochester, MN, USA
28-30/11/2007 Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA


CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS

10/2000-03/2013: Staff Physician, Division of Internal Medicine II, Department of Medicine, L. Sacco Hospital, Milan.
10/2007-03/2013: Head, Syncope Outpatient Clinic, Division of Internal Medicine II, L. Sacco Hospital, Milan
04/2013-02/2015: Director, Division of Medicine and Pathophysiology, L. Sacco Hospital
06/2016-06/2018: Ad interim Director, Division of Emergency Medicine, IRCCS Fondazione Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano
03/2015-present: Director, Division of Medicine, Allergology & Immunology IRCCS Fondazione Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano


AWARDS

• Young Research Investigator Award, sponsored by Italian Society of Cardiology for an experimental work entitled "Adenosine excites cardiac sympathetic afferent fibers". Rome, December 1991.
• Finalist, Young Research Investigator Award, sponsored by Italian Society of Cardiology, Rome, December 1994.
• Award of Italian-French Belgian Community Commission-Scientific and Technologic Cooperation (Project 99.1.7), 1999.

GRANTS

• American Heart Association Grant: “Spectral analysis of sympathetic and cardiovascular variability in humans” (PI, Dr Virend K Somers, University of Iowa), 1998 – (Investigator)
• Italian Minister for University and Research COFIN 2000 Grant MM06155542_002 (23.241 Euros):“Relationship between sympathetic and vagal discharge rhythmicities and cardiovascular variabilities in rats” (PI Alberto Malliani)- (Co-PI; two years)
• University of Milan FIRST 2001 Young Investigator Grant (25.000 Euros) “Assessment of short- and long-term alterations in neural control of circulation in freely moving rats after acute myocardial infarction”. (PI; two years)
• Italian Minister for University and Research COFIN 2003 Grant 2003068708_002:“Alterations in neural control of circulation in patients with major depressive disorders”. (Co-PI; two years)
• Project DCMC (2003-2006) Italian Space Agency: “Assessment of circadian autonomic rhthmicity of cardiovascular variability in mice using a newly developed biotelemetric wireless system” (PI; three years).
• European Space Agency Bed-Rest Project 2006:“ALTERATIONS IN SLEEP HOMEOSTASIS, AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AND CORTICAL PLASTICITY INDUCED BY SIMULATED MICROGRAVITY” (PI; two years).
• Italian Minister for University and Research PRIN 2007 Grant 20072S2HT8_002,: “Air pollution and health: an integrated multidisciplinary program of environmental, epidemiological, molecular and clinical investigations”, (Co-PI; two years)
• Telethon Research Grant 2009. Cardiovascular autonomic phenotype in Long-QT-Syndrome type 3 (LQTS3) transgenic mice. (Co-PI; two years)
• European Space Agency ILSRA-2009 -1121 “Consequences of Stress Challenges on stress response systems and Immunity in Space: a multidisciplinary approach (IMMUNO-2; formerly CONSCIOUS)” (Co-PI, three years)
• Stretcher Award Foundation Grant “Association of Autonomic Tone and Markers of Inflammation in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease”, PI Steve Bibevski, Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan, 2011-2012. (Co-Investigator)
• Project FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1 Human Bridge for Strengthening Integration of ICRC into European Research Area (ICRC ERA Human Bridge), St. Anne´s University Hospital in Brno - International Clinical Research Centre, Czech Republic, 2012-2017
• CARIPLO Foundation Grant 2014: “ACROSS- Cardiac pacemaker ageing: cellular and molecular basis” (PI: Prof. Dario di Francesco; Unit Coordinator), 2014-2016.
• Grant RF-2016-02364803 Ministry of Health: “EffecTs of tRanscutaneous vAgus Nerve Stimulation in heart Failure patients with moderately rEduced or preseRved left ventricular function (TRANSFER Trial) (Co-PI), 2017-2019.
• European Space Agency AO_2017_Concordia “Consequences of longterm-Confinement and Hypobaric HypOxia on Immunity in the Antarctic Concordia Environment (CHO2ICE III – Study): Learning from the Vulnerability of Adaptation to the Benefit of Space Exploration” (Research Unit PI)., 2019-2021.
• Velusx Stiftung Grant 2019 “*Development of novel research strategies for the biological and clinical characterization of fatigue, a marker of aging, paradigm of complexity, and potential target of interventions*” (Co-PI), 2020-2022.


EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

Editorial Board Member Sleep (2011-)
Internal and Emergency Medicine (2011-)
ISRN Cardiology (2011-)
Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic & Clinical (2001-2008)

Ad hoc Reviewer Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal Sleep, International Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Physiology, European Heart Journal, Chest, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review, Diabetes Care, Hypertension, International Journal of Obesity, Journal of Sleep Research, Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic & Clinical, European Journal of Internal Medicine, Diabetologia, Nature Communications, Internal and Emergency Medicine


OTHER NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

2003-2014: Director, Young Internists Educational Programs, Italian Society of Internal Medicine
2014-2016: Director, European School of Internal Medicine, European Federation of Internal Medicine
2009-2013: Secretary, Executive Board of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine
2008-present: Member, Topical Team “ Stress and Immunity in Space”, European Space Agency
2015-2018: Member, Executive Committee, International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience
2015-2020: Expert Evaluator of Research Institutes, Czech Academy of Sciences
2018- present: President, European Federation of Internal Medicine
2015-present: Member, Board of Trustees, Carlo Erba Foundation, Milan

INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL TUTORSHIPS

- January 2008 – Cardiovascular Physiology Doctorate - Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil – Candidate: Karina Rabello Casali)

- April 2012, - Internal Medicine Doctorate – University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa – Candidate: DC Janse van Rensburg

PUBLICATIONS:

Author of 275 full length articles on peer reviewed journal (Scopus Source, January 2021)

H-index=49 Citations: 10227

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Neural control of circulation & cardiometabolic diseases
• Stress
• Sleep deprivation
• Heart failure
• Clinical Methodology