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Biography: |
Paolo Vicini received his Laurea degree (Electronics Engineering) from the University of Padova, Italy, and his doctoral degree (Bioengineering) from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 1998 as a Research Assistant Professor and became an Associate Professor in 2004. In 2008, he joined Pfizer Global Research and Development in San Diego, CA, as a Research Fellow in the Pharmacokinetic, Dynamics and Metabolism Department. His general research focus is model-based analysis of biomedical data, with emphasis on software development, design of experiments, model selection and parameter estimation, and its application to clinical and basic science, including glucose and insulin metabolism, cancer, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Dr. Vicini is a member of the American Diabetes Association, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the IEEE and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. He was the Chair-Elect, Chair and Past Chair of the AAPS Modeling and Simulation Focus Group (1999-2005) and received the IEEE/EMBS Early Career Award in 2003. He was awarded the Distinguished Teacher-Mentor Award by the Department of Bioengineering in 2006. He was a member of the Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics NIH Study Section, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. |