Professor Luigi Amaducci(1932–1998)

IN MEMORIAM

PROFESSOR LUIGI AMADUCCI(1932–1998)

It is with much sadness that we announce the passing on January 11 of acolleague and friend who has served as a member of our Editorial Board since itsinception.

Born in Verona, Italy, in 1932, Luigi Amaducci qualified as an M.D. at theUniversity of Padua Medical School in 1957. In 1960–1962 he was granted aFullbright fellowship for postdoctoral research in neuropathology at HarvardMedical School, after which he returned to Italy for further training in neurologyat the University of Florence. During the years 1960–1970, he was PrincipalInvestigator on two 3-year projects funded by grants from the NINCDS-NationalInstitutes of Health (Bethesda, MD), and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society,respectively. In 1978 he worked as a Visiting Professor in the Department ofNeurology and Pathology, at Stanford University in California, and in 1983–1984he was a Visiting Scientist at the NINCDS Institutes of Health, Neuroepidemiol-ogy Section.

Professor of Neurology at the University of Florence Medical School since 1979,he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Neurologic and PsychiatricSciences of the University of Florence from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1991 to1994. He served as Delegate for the Rector and was nominated Vice Rector forScientific Research and International Affairs of the University in Florence in 1997.

Luigi Amaducci was an active member of many professional and scientificorganizations, including being President of the Research Group on Dementias ofthe World Federation of Neurology and Vice President of the European Federationof Neurological Societies. Since 1989 he was Director of the Targeted Project onAging of the Italian National Research Council, National Delegate for theBiomedical and Health Research Program of the European Union (1991–1994), andhad been reelected for the Biomed2 Program (1995–1998). He was electedPresident of the Italian Neurologic Society (SIN) in 1996. In addition to being anactive member of the Editorial Board of Neurobiology of Disease, he served on thoseof several other scientific journals and had an extensive list of published paperswith several of his works focusing on multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease,dementias, and epidemiology.

Neurobiology of Disease 5, 1 (1998)

Article No. NB980180

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