Metabolism

Slowing down osteoporosis


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Bone tissue affected by osteoporosis


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Alfredo Gentili
founder of Istituto Gentili S.p.A.





The current therapy of osteoporosis is based on a class of drugs called bisphosphonates. The first bisphosphonate, alendronate, was invented in the 1980s by Giorgio Staibano e Sergio Rosini at the Istituto Gentili research laboratories in Pisa.