Marco Cavaglia'

Assistant Professor with time contract
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS)

Profile

Research interests

ANAESTHETIC GAS
blood-brain barrier
cellular and molecular neuroscience
CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
delayed emergence from anesthesia
electrophysiology

Biography

Marco Cavaglià [Male] is Research Assistant of Industrial Bioengineering at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of POLITO, involved in data analysis and development of models for the study of the state of consciousness under general anesthesia. Born in Italy in 1964 became Doctor of Medicine in 1990 and Anesthesiologyst in 1994 in the Torino University, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. Experienced paediatric, cardiac and neuro anaesthesiologist, has been the Director of the pediatric cardiac program of the Aldo Castaneda Institute of Genolier (CH), where he worked with Prof. Aldo Castaneda and Prof. William Norwood. He completed a three years anesthesia research fellowship to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation working on animal model (sheep) of cardiopulmonary bypass to investigate the physiology of brain damage. On 2004 Marco Cavaglià completed the Ph.D program to the Insubria Univeristy of Varese and became Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis about the role of metalloproteases on brain damage due to cardiopulmonary bypass.

He conjugated research and clinical activity and participated in several nations cardiac program, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Nicaragua, Egypt. Considerable experience with clinical trials for neuronal-protection strategy. Significant expertise in basic science and animal research models.

Research topics

  • Neuronal Markers of brain injury related to cardiopulmonary bypass

Skills

ERC sectors

LS5_9 - Systems neuroscience

SDG

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Fellowships

Conferences

  • Summer School “Brain & Gut Neuroscience: From Molecules to Mood” Three edition 2018-2019-2020 (21/8/2017-24/3/2017), Program committee

Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Professore Incaricato, presso Università degli Studi del PIEMONTE ORIENTALE "Amedeo Avogadro"-Vercelli (10/9/2001-31/7/2003)
  • Titolare di contratto di ricerca, presso Cleveland Clinic Foundation (5/10/1998-2/7/2001)
  • Titolare di contratto di ricerca, presso Università degli Studi di TORINO (1/1/1992-1/1/1993)

Other titles

  • Invenzione dispositivo per la ventilazione non invasiva a basso consumo di ossigeno in assenza di contaminazione ambientale e deposito di brevetto “Kit di supporto alla respirazione” congiunta tra Politecnico di Torino (50%), APR (40%), Dott. Olivieri 10 (2020-)

Teaching

Courses of Study Boards

Teachings

Master of Science

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Research

Research groups

Publications

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Society and Enterprise

Patents and other intellectual properties

  • DIVOC (REVERSE COVID) - DEVICE FOR NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION WITH LOW OXYGEN CONSUMPTION IN ABSENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION. national and international Patent