Immunologist Aiuti dies, maybe suicide

(ANSA) - Rome, January 9 - Top Italian immunologist and former centre-right politician Fernando Aiuti died on Wednesday and police are not ruling out suicide, sources said.
    Aiuti, 83, was being treated in Rome's Gemelli Hospital, they said.
    Rome prosecutors are investigating the death.
    As well as being a world-renowned immunologist, Aiuti was formerly a member of three-time premier and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi's now defunct People of Freedom party.