Pier Mario Biava is an Italian occupational doctor who has been researching the connection between

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and

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. Currently, He is active at the Institute of Multimedia Scientific Hospitalization and Care in

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. He is also the co-founder of the Novacell Biotech Company based in Milan, which produces

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and

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for the prevention of aging and the onset of degenerative diseases.

Education

Pier Mario Biava received his

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from the

University of Pavia The University of Pavia (, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; ) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest un ...

and went on to specialize in

occupational medicine Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), previously called industrial medicine, is a board certified medical specialty under the American Board of Preventative Medicine that specializes in the prevention and treatment of work-related ill ...

and

hygiene Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases." Personal hygiene refer ...

at the Universities of Padua and

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, respectively.

Research and career

For several years he has been studying the relationship between cancer and

: he has identified specific networks of

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growth factors, which as

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regulators are able to control the expression of various genes capable of slowing down cellular aging and regenerating different types of tissue without the need for stem cell transplantation. He has also identified specific networks of differentiation factors capable of reprogramming

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stem cells, such as cancer and cells of the germinative layer of the

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altered in

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. He also emphasized that in order to reprogram altered stem cells or to regenerate a tissue it is necessary to regulate many genes at the same time and not a single gene.

Books

* Cancer and the Search for Lost Meaning: The Discovery of a Revolutionary New Cancer Treatment. * Information Medicine: The Revolutionary Cell-Reprogramming Discovery that Reverses Cancer and Degenerative Diseases.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Biava, Pier Mario Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Pavia alumni Cancer researchers 21st-century Italian physicians Italian medical researchers Italian medical writers