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Paolo Macchiarini

1958 - Today

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Paolo Macchiarini (born 22 August 1958) is a thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and manipulative behavior. He was convicted of research-related crimes in Italy and Sweden. Previously considered a pioneer for using both biological and synthetic scaffolds seeded with patients' own stem cells as trachea transplants, Macchiarini was a visiting professor and director on a temporary contract at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet (KI) from 2010. Macchiarini was convicted of unethically performing experimental surgeries, even on relatively healthy patients, resulting in fatalities for seven of the eight patients who received one of his synthetic trachea transplants. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paolo Macchiarini is the 546th most popular physician (down from 542nd in 2019), the 451st most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 462nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Paolo Macchiarini ranks 546 out of 726Before him are Anna Kuliscioff, Frederick Twort, Wladimir Aïtoff, Jan Janský, Nicolás Monardes, and Willem Piso. After him are John Ostrom, Max Gerson, Vivien Thomas, Pierre Marie, Ugo Cerletti, and Erik Adolf von Willebrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Paolo Macchiarini ranks 210Before him are Volodymyr Bezsonov, Julio Olarticoechea, Bernard Genghini, Jan Fabre, Ricardo Gareca, and Mágico González. After him are Mladen Ivanić, Richard Burgi, Michael Paré, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Pita, and Duško Marković.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paolo Macchiarini ranks 451 out of 1,015Before him are Renée Colliard (1933), Bernhard Hammer (1822), Leon Schlumpf (1925), Stephan Lichtsteiner (1984), Kaspar Villiger (1941), and Alexander Frei (1979). After him are Granit Xhaka (1992), Romain Grosjean (1986), Robert Emden (1862), Hans Huber (1852), René Fasel (1950), and Eugène Parlier (1929).

Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Paolo Macchiarini ranks 16Before him are Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), and Thomas Erastus (1524). After him are Adolf Meyer (1866), and Daniel Mojon (1963).