Franco Romano Calaresu

Franco Romano Calaresu (1931 – July 26, 1996) was initially a medical doctor and later became a reputed Canadian scholar and professor of neurophysiology of the Department of Physiology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He was elected in 1995 as Fellow of The Royal Society, in the Live Sciences Division of the Canadian Academy. His main area of interest was the nervous system and the integration of its mechanisms. His group pioneered the use of the mainframe analysis of data collected during surgical experiments on laboratory animals. He had mostly carried out neural studies on the central and peripheral mechanisms of autonomic reflexes, with special emphasis on the cardiovascular ones.