Born in Milan in 1955, Sergio Dompé is an entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries and President of Dompé, a pharmaceutical group developing innovative therapeutic solutions for rare and orphan diseases. He has been awarded honorary doctorates in Biotechnology with specialization in pharmaceutics (Bologna, 1996), Medical Biotechnology (L’Aquila, 2005) and Pharmacy (Urbino, 2010). Among the first in Italy to grasp the true value of biotechnology applied to human health, he has developed an extensive network of partnerships with the most significant research centres for diseases in Dompé’s main therapeutic fields.
In 2016, he funded and established Movendo, an innovative medical company sparked by an idea by the Italian Institute of Technology: to develop the most advanced technologies at the service of mankind and products in the field of physical movement rehabilitation. In the same year, he received the Prize of the Foundation Aiuto per la Ricerca sulle Malattie Rare (A.R.M.R.), regularly awarded to those who distinguish themselves in the research field. In 2017 he was awarded the Guido Carli prize.
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