Paolo Macchiarini Biography
Paolo Macchiarini is a thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who was exposed for research fraud and deceptive behavior. He has been found guilty of research-related crimes in Italy and Sweden.
How old is Paolo Macchiarini? – Age
He is 65 years old as of 22 August 2023. He was born in 1958 in Basel, Switzerland.
Paolo Macchiarini Education
Macchiarini earned his medical degree (equivalent to an MD) from the University of Pisa’s Medical School (UniPi) in 1986, followed by a Master of Surgery in 1991. He was an assistant professor at UniPi from 1990 to 1992. He claimed to have been a fellow for about two years in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1989, however this was later rejected by the university because the department did not exist at the time and still does not exist now. He did, however, spend six months as a fellow in their Hematology/Oncology department. Macchiarini received degrees from the University of Franche-Comté in France, including a master’s degree in organ and tissue transplantation in 1994 and a doctorate in the same field in 1997.
Does Paolo Macchiarini have children? – Wife
Macchiarini married Italian woman Emanuela Pecchia in 1986, and they have two children: a daughter and a boy. He also had a daughter with Ana Paula Bernardes, who met Macchiarini in 2010 when he operated on her son Danilo, who died shortly afterward. That romance ended in 2016, when Bernardes discovered Macchiarini’s relationship with NBC News producer Benita Alexander.
What is the net worth of Palo Macaroni? – Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Palo Macaroni Benita
On January 5, 2016, Vanity Fair published an article on Macchiarini’s involvement with journalist Benita Alexander. The revelation also called into question comments he made on his resume. The article depicts him as a serial fabulist and “the extreme form of a con man,” commenting that “the fact that he could keep all the details straight and compartmentalize these different lives and lies is truly amazing.”
Palo Macaroni Podcast
In August 2021, the third season of the Dr. Death podcast began publishing episodes, including a six-episode season about Macchiarini dubbed “Miracle Man”. The audio series explores claims of ethical impropriety and manipulation in Macchiarini’s medical profession, as well as allegations of personal dishonesty in his involvement with Alexander, as told through a series of interviews with the latter. The second series of the podcast’s television adaptation aired on December 21, 2023, focusing on Macchiarini, played by actor Edgar Ramírez.
Palo Macaroni Netflix documentary
The Netflix documentary Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife was released in late November 2023. It follows Macchiarini’s ascent and collapse, as well as the efforts to bring him to justice. It contains an extensive interview with Alexander.
Palo Macaroni Surgeries
In June 2008, Macchiarini directed a transfer of a gave windpipe colonized with the undifferentiated organisms of the beneficiary, Claudia Castillo; the tissue was utilized to supplant her left bronchus, which had been harmed by tuberculosis, and her left lung had imploded. The windpipe came from a corpse, and was deprived of its cells and cultivated with cells taken from Castillo’s bone marrow. The bone marrow cells were refined at the College of Bristol, the giver windpipe was stripped at College of Padua, the stripped windpipe was cultivated with the refined cells at College of Milan, and the windpipe was relocated by a group drove by Macchiarini at Emergency clinic Center in Barcelona.
In Walk 2010, Macchiarini went to a transfer performed by Extraordinary Ormond Road specialists. Like the one accomplished for Castillo, this was on a ten-year-old Irish kid, Ciaran Finn-Lynch, at Extraordinary Ormond Road Emergency clinic in London. The kid was brought into the world with a 1 mm breadth windpipe, and endeavors to broaden it had caused hazardous intricacies. Dissimilar to the Castillo methodology, for this situation, the stripped windpipe was cultivated with the kid’s undeveloped cells only hours before it was embedded.
Keziah Abbreviate had windpipe malignant growth. In 2010, Macchiarini played out a transfer like the prior two; the transfer bombed the following year, and an engineered windpipe was embedded for palliative consideration at College School Emergency clinic London in 2011, after which she had the option to be released and get back to visit the family with her family prior to capitulating to her basic illness. In 2010, Macchiarini embedded a cultivated gave windpipe in a 25 year elderly person in Russia, while working with specialist Vladimir Parshin.
Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene was a man from Eritrea who was procuring a graduate degree in Iceland when he was determined to have malignant growth. The disease was treated with chemotherapy and medical procedure in 2009, however in 2011 his windpipe was hindered once more. Beyene’s PCPs suggested palliative consideration, yet additionally connected with Macchiarini, who was at KI at that point.
For this situation, Macchiarini teamed up with researchers at College School London to produce a completely manufactured windpipe, with a designed platform cultivated with Beyene’s marrow cells, rather than utilizing a gave and stripped windpipe, as it had been finished previously.
The activity happened in June 2011 and was generally canvassed in the media, remembering a first page story for The New York Times. By year’s end the embed was falling flat, and keeping in mind that Beyene had the option to finish his Ph.D in 2012, he passed on in January 2013 notwithstanding going through numerous medicines at KI. The dissection showed that Beyene had a constant lung disease, a coagulation in his lung, and the manufactured windpipe had come free.
Christopher Lyles lived in the US; he had tracheal malignant growth which was treated with radiation and medical procedure. He caught wind of Beyene’s treatment and through his primary care physician requested that Macchiarini do likewise for him. Macchiarini obliged, making a completely engineered windpipe cultivated with undifferentiated organisms from Lyles and embedding it at KI in November 2011. Lyles passed on abruptly in 2012 after he had gotten back; no post-mortem was performed.
In June 2012, Macchiarini embedded a completely manufactured cultivated windpipe in Yulia Tuulik at Kuban State Clinical College. Tuulik had a tracheostomy coming about because of a fender bender, however her life was not at serious risk. The join incorporated a cricoid ligament, some portion of the voice box, which Macchiarini had not attempted previously. The windpipe later fell, and was supplanted; she passed on in 2014. A review by the Russian government later found that Macchiarini had worked without a Russian clinical permit.
Likewise in June 2012, Macchiarini embedded a subsequent manufactured cultivated windpipe on Alexander Zozulya, who additionally had a tracheostomy coming about because of an auto crash and whose life was not at serious risk. The impacts from the principal embed in 2012 provoked a second a medical procedure in November 2013. Zozulya kicked the bucket in February 2014 under muddled conditions.
Turkish public Yesim Cetir went through a normal medical procedure in 2011 to treat exorbitant perspiring in her grasp, yet because of a blunder her windpipe was seriously harmed and her left lung was harmed. She came to Macchiarini at the KI for treatment, and in 2012 he previously eliminated her left lung and supplanted her windpipe with a line, then supplanted the line with a completely engineered cultivated windpipe. The following year the embed imploded and Macchiarini supplanted it with a subsequent one. Cetir had numerous difficulties from this system, stayed needing having her aviation route cleared, and endured kidney disappointment. In 2016 she went through different organ transfers in the U.S., and her windpipe was supplanted with one from a body. Cetir kicked the bucket in Walk 2017.
In April 2013, Macchiarini embedded a completely engineered cultivated windpipe in two-year-old Hannah Warren, who had been brought into the world without one. The activity was performed at OSF Holy person Francis Clinical Center in Peoria, Illinois, US. The activity likewise elaborate her throat, which didn’t mend as expected and required a second activity in June; she passed on 6 July 2013, from confusions of the subsequent medical procedure.
In August 2013 Sadiq Kanaan got a completely manufactured cultivated tracheal embed from Macchiarini at Kuban State Clinical College. He passed on later that very year. In June 2014, Macchiarini embedded a completely engineered cultivated windpipe in Dmitri Onogda at the Kuban State Clinical College. The embed fizzled and was supplanted with a benefactor windpipe, and starting around 2017 Onogda was as yet alive.