Businessman Fabio De Furia is the new president of the Miami Scientific Italian Community (MSIC), unanimously elected today by the Shareholders’ Assembly. The Board of Directors will be composed of Dr. Alessia Fornoni, Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, and Director of the Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center at the University of Miami; Dr. Domenico Calcaterra, Associate Professor of Surgery, Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital at the University of Minnesota Medical School; Dr. Massimiliano Galeazzi, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Physics of the University of Miami: Dr. Luciano Berti, President and CEO of BM Sanitas; and Dr. Andrea Macario, Co-founder, CMO & CPO, Kweakly.

Miami Scientific Italian Community (MSIC) is a no-profit organization of researchers, private and public institutions, bridging university and industry by promoting the transfer of innovative technologies and supporting the competitiveness of the industrial system of the State Florida, US, and internationally. MSIC has been recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation [MAECI] and by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research [MIUR] among the organizations of Italian researchers abroad and supported by the Consulate General of Italy in Miami, MSIC promotes coordinated action by the ingenious Italian scientific community present in Miami and Florida to stimulate new synergies with Italy and the European Union.