Full Professor
Department of Oncology, San Luigi Hospital, University of Turin, Italy
Silvia Novello is Full Professor of Medical Oncology at the Department of Oncology at the University of Turin - Italy and Chief of the Thoracic Oncolgy Unit at the San Luigi Hospital in Orbassano-Italy.
She graduated in Medicine at the University of Turin in 1995 and then did a Postgraduate Course in Respiratory Medicine (1999, summa cum laude). In 2006 she achieved a PhD in Human Oncology and went on doing a Postgraduate in Medical Oncology in 2010.
Professor Novello’s main area of research is based on the aspects of basic research and applied clinical research concerning lung cancer.
She has been involved in national and international trials and studies in different lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma clinical stages including among others: supportive care, the treatment of lung cancer in elderly patients, the role of cytokines in thoracic malignancies (lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma), the role of oncogenes, antioncogenes, growth factors and their receptors in lung cancer (pathogenesis, prognosis); women and lung cancer; pharmacogenomics and lung cancer; applied clinical research aspects regarding interstitial lung disease.
Professor Novello is a Member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Member of “Innovators in Lung Cancer”, Member of IASLC and Board of Director Member since July 2011, Member of NLCP (National Lung Cancer Partnership) Scientific Committee, Member of IASLC Young Investigators Awards Scientific Committee, Member of AIOM (Italian Association of Medical Oncolgoy) and Board of Director Member since October 2015 and President of the European Association - Women Against Lung Cancer in Europe (WALCE).
She has been a speaker at various Italian and International Congresses focused on Thoracic Oncology.
Professor Novello is author and co-author of over 350 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and of book chapters published in scientific volumes.
