Associate Professor
Policlinico P. Giaccone, Italy
-Associate Professor in Medical Oncology at the Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Science, University of Palermo-Member of National Network Rare Tumors
-Clinical Coordinator of the “Rete Regionale Tumori Rari Regione Sicilia”
-Author of the Italian guidelines (AIOM) for Soft Tissue Tumors and Neuroendocrine Tumors
-Representative of EURACAN (European Reference Network on Rare Adult Cancers solid tumors), at Oncology Department, University of Palermo, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Via del Vespro n°127, 90100 Palermo (Italia)
He is author of 111 peer reviewed publications and he is principal investigator and co-investigator in several national and international clinical trials, according to Good Clinical Practice, specifically on rare tumors.
He is a member of many tumor board to development new drugs in rare cancer.
He is actively involved in research studies of rare tumors (Soft Tissue Sarcomas and GIST) and immunoncology, focused on molecular mechanisms of targeted therapy and immunotherapy resistance, identification of novel molecules involved in anti-tumor immune response and immunomodulatory mechanism of cancer evolution, through new techniques as liquid biopsy.
