Paolo Mulatero

Prof Paolo Mulatero is Professor of Internal Medicine and Head of the Hypertension Unit, Department of Medical Sciences at the University of Torino, Turin, Italy. His main research interests include pathophysiology; clinical and molecular genetics of primary aldosteronism; biochemistry and genetics of 11b-hydroxylase and aldosterone synthase (CYP11B1 and CYP11B2) and their role in human pathologies (essential hypertension, primary aldosteronism, glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism, aldosterone synthase deficiency type I and II); clinical genetics of the monogenic forms of hypertension; the genetic and pathophysiology of essential and secondary hypertension and the evaluation of the cardiovascular risk factors.