About Serafino Belfanti
Lived 1860 – 1939 (aged 78). Serafino Belfanti was an Italian immunologist, politician and physician.
Serafino Belfanti (28 March 1860 – 6 March 1939) was an Italian immunologist, founder of the Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese, the first Italian medical and vaccine research institute.
He was born in Castelletto sopra Ticino, near Novara.
After graduating in medical sciences, he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and later with Prof Robert Koch. In 1932 he was made an Italian senator honoris causa.
He died in Milan in 1939.
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Italian immunologist (1860-1939)
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Serafino Belfanti was born on 28 March 1860 in Castelletto sopra Ticino.
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Serafino Belfanti died on 6 March 1939 in Milan.
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Serafino Belfanti was an immunologist, politician and physician.
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Serafino Belfanti was Italian.
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