Dr. Pettoello-Mantovani graduated (magna cum laude) in Medicine in 1983 from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Italy. He received his PhD in Pediatrics from the Universities of Turin and Naples in 1988 and conducted his post-doctoral training in Microbiology and Clinical Mycology at the Catholic University of Sacred Hearth in Rome, Italy. From 1989 to 2003, he worked continually at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) of Yeshiva University in New York.
Dr. Pettoello-Mantovani received his training in retrovirology at NIH, in the “Virus Biology Section” at the U.S. Army Research Center of Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland (NIH Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, directed by Dr. Robert Gallo). His Research Projects have been supported by several grants from major research agencies, including the US National Institute of Health (NIH), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA), the Italian National Research Council (CNR), the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), the Italian Ministry of Health and the European Union Commission (Horizon 2020). In 1994 he was awarded with the US Class of "Outstanding Professor" and later received the USA Citizenship as "Outstanding Researcher” for his scientific achievements.
Dr. Pettoello-Mantovani's main research interests have been in physiopathology of metabolism and nutrition and in Infectious Diseases. His primary research achievements relate to his studies on opportunistic infectious agents and their metabolic products (natural and killer toxins). He made a major contribution to the design of animal models (Thy/Liv SCID-hu mice) used to perform in vivo physiology and immunology studies and to test vaccines and novel drug therapies. In 1998 he was appointed President of the Executive Committee of the “World Health Policy Forum”, an international Swiss based Foundation dedicated to the protection and improvement of human health. In 2004, he established and directed the Doctorate Research Program "Food and Nutrition Science in Pediatrics" at the University of Foggia, Italy, where he has been the Director of the Residency Program in Pediatrics since 2004.
Throughout his professional career, he has developed a strong expertise in pediatric public health, documented by an extended number of scientific publications in the area of child health and wellbeing and pediatric healthcare services. Since 2021 Dr. Pettoello-Mantovani has been Vice president of the Board of the Italian Full Professors of Pediatrics and vice-president of the Italian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP). Currently, he is President of the European Pediatric Association, the Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations (EPA-UNEPSA), based in Berlin, Germany and of the "Association Pour l’Activitè et la Recherche Scientifiques", based in Bevaix, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
