Why we should reward peer reviewers

Dr. Pasquale Maffia received his B.Sc. (HONS) in Pharmacy in 1994, M.Phil. in Pharmacology in 1996 and Ph.D. in Pharmacology in 2000, all from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), where he became Aggregate Professor of Pharmacology in 2006. He then joined the University of Strathclyde as a Lecturer in Integrative Mammalian Biology, before moving to the University of Glasgow where he is currently Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, and the BHF Centre of Excellence in Vascular Science and Medicine. He is the Senior Honours Immunology degree programme co-ordinator in Glasgow and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) Immunopharmacology Section and the British Pharmacological Society Policy and Public Engagement Committee. He is an Editorial Board Member of the British Journal of Pharmacology and Frontiers in Immunology, Associate Editor of Pharmacological Research, and Executive Deputy Editor of Cardiovascular Research. Dr. Maffia has a major interest in the immune response in cardiovascular disease. He has authored over 60 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals includingImmunity, Circulation,PNAS, andBlood. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, the British Pharmacological Society, and the European Society of Cardiology.
Source: Cardiovascular Research - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research