Andrea Alimonti
Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Switzerland
Biography
Andrea Alimonti is Head of the Molecular Oncology laboratory of the Institute of Oncology Research, the research branch of the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), and privat- docent in the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine from the University of Rome in 2000, and a Residency in Oncology from the University of Rome in 2004 working as Clinical Oncology at the Italian National Cancer Institute of Rome. He has later worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Subsequently he spent two years at Beth Israel Cancer Center at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of PP Pandolfi. In 2010 he has joined the IOSI. He has won several awards including the Swiss Bridge Award and the prestigious ERC starting grant in 2010. He has published several peer reviewed papers, including papers in Nature, Cell, Nature Genetics, JCI and JCO either as main or Co-Author. Alimonti is full Member of the European society of medical oncology and of the Yang Academy of Europe.