Antonietta Gatti

Antonietta Morena Gatti is a physicist and bioengineer and the founder and director of the Laboratory of Biomaterials of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). She is the discoverer of the presence of micro- and nanoparticles in biological tissues and of their pathological effects. The European Community appointed her coordinator of the international group in charge of the nanopathology project. She was a keynote speaker on “Depleted Uranium Related Diseases” at the 2005 Audition at the House of Lords in London on the invitation of its president, Lord Morris of Manchester.