Last updated on: 13/02/2012
1. Contact details{View data sources/studies associated with this centre}
Name of organisation 
1) Department/Research groupDepartment of Pharmacology
2) Organisation/affiliationUniversity of Bologna
Short Name in the inventoryUNIBO
Website/Homepagewww.farmacologia.unibo.it 
Administrative Contact
Title Dr
Last name Poluzzi
First name Elisabetta
Address line 1via Irnerio, 48
Address line 2 
Address line 3 
CityBologna 
Postcode40126 
CountryItaly
Phone number (incl. country code)39-051-2091809 
Alternative phone number 
Fax number (incl. country code)39-051-248862 
Email address elisabetta.poluzzi@unibo.it
Scientific Contact
Title Professor
Last name De Ponti
First name Fabrizio
Address line 1via Irnerio, 48
Address line 2 
Address line 3 
CityBologna 
Postcode40126 
CountryItaly
Phone number (incl. country code)39-051-2091805 
Alternative phone number 
Fax number (incl. country code)39-051-248862 
Email address fabrizio.deponti@unibo.it
Alternative Scientific Contact
Title Dr 
Last name Poluzzi 
First name Elisabetta 
Address line 1via Irnerio, 48 
Address line 2 
Address line 3 
CityBologna 
Postcode40126 
CountryItaly 
Phone number (incl. country code)39-051-2091809 
Alternative phone number 
Fax number (incl. country code)39-051-248862 
Email address elisabetta.poluzzi@unibo.it 
2. Description
Safety evaluation and regulatory aspects of drugs with QT liability: (1) critical review of the published literature to rank drugs of specific classes; (2) drug utilisation studies to indirectly quantify population exposure to drugs with QT liability; (3) signal detection of Torsades de Pointes gathered through investigation of spontaneous reporting databases (FP7 project: ARITMO). Safety issues currently under investigation by analysing international spontaneous reporting databases: drug-induced TdP, drug-induced PML and glitazones; collaborative projects with the Italian Medicines Agency (i.e., antipsychotics, hepatotoxicity, biphosphonates). Drug utilisation: active involvement in EuroDURG and SIG-DUR-ISPE initiatives (e.g. CNC project and European ATC browser); study of patterns of drug use and appropriateness in Italy (i.e., cardiovascular drugs, osteoporosis, antipsychotics, multiple sclerosis, NSAIDs) by using drug prescription databases, questionnaires, registries.
3. Category
University based
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