Paolo Villari, Professor of Hygiene, has been elected as the new Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine for a three-year term.

Villari, who succeeds Carlo Della Rocca, was previously Director of the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases until 2021 and is currently also Chairman of the Ethics Committee for Transdisciplinary Research at Sapienza. During the pandemic, he coordinated Sapienza's COVID-19 Task Force.

On behalf of the entire Sapienza community, Rector Antonella Polimeni wishes the new Dean every success in his work.