
Piergiorgio Bolasco
Director
Territorial Nephrology Department – Cagliari
Italy
Biography
Director of the Territorial Nephrology Department – Cagliari Italy from 20 years. Main veiw researches: new and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy. From 1998 I was using and improving combined nutritional and tailored dialysis; guidelines of water for dialysis, peritoneal dialysis. Reviewer of international journals: Kidney International, Nephron, Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, Journal of Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Disease, Artificial Organs, BMC Nephrology ; Member of Editorial Boarding of Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia, Journal of Nephrology, Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica, Clinical Nephrology.International Journal of Artificial Organs. Member of Italian Society of Nephrology from 1980. Author / co-author of 374 scientific publications and abstracts of Nephrology 68 on med-line.
Research Interest
new and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy.
Biography
Maria J Esteve is an expert in food analysis. She has studied the effect of non-conventional conservation treatments (electrotechnologies, high pressures and ultrasounds) on physicochemical characteristics, nutrients and bioactive compounds of foods of vegetal origin. In her last project she studies the valorization of residues of the food industry with the extraction by non-conventional techniques of bioactive compounds (phenolic compounds, ascorbic acid, carotenes) and colored compounds. She also studies the possible interactions between the compounds as well as their bioaccessibility and the effect that different technologies can have. The effect on the health of the consumer is important but also the interest to reduce the environmental impact has increased, reason why it is looked for sustainable processes.
Research Interest
food analysis
Biography
Professor Kaj Winther was earlier deeply involved in cardiovascular research and medicine with special reference to thrombosis and haemostasis and worked for a period at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, on the topic “Circadian variation in Myocardial Infraction”. Later in his career he more and more focused on development and clinical testing of herbal remedies and different versions of new foods. His interest in food and herbal remedies is also based on the fact that much prescription medicine including the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID`s) are blamed for serious side effects. As many of our top athletes and more and more of the average population trying to get into a “better shape” is abusing NSAID`s, more attention should be drawn to develop new “pain-killers” without serious side effects. Here some food supplements, herbal remedies and some new foods, might be interesting to future develop – replies Kaj Winther.
Research Interest
Clinical Biochemistry,herbal remedies and their impact on inflammation