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Autorenporträt
Antonio Russo is Full Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Palermo (Italy). He is head of the Medical Oncology Unit and of the Reference Center of Rare and Heredo-familial Solid Tumors, Palermo (Italy). In addition, he is Coordinator of the PhD in Oncology at the University of Palermo and Adjunct Full Professor at Temple University's, Philadelphia (USA). He is a medical oncologist and he focuses on translational oncology, hereditary, rare, lung, gastrointestinal and ovarian cancers. Previously he was Director of the Specialization School in Medical Oncology, University of Palermo. He was co-chair of the "CRCP53 International Collaborative Study" project and also member of the international RASCAL II project group. He is an active member of the main scientific oncological groups as ASCO, ESMO, ISBL and AIOM, of which he is a member of the national board of councillors. He was an expert member of INSERM (France), of the Scientific Committee INCA (France) and of the NWCRF (UK). Recently, he has been the recipient of numerous professional accolades, including a Visiting Professor and an Honorary Professor membership for the Peruvian Ricardo Palma University. In 2019 he also received the prestigious NIAF Award for Ethics and creativity in Medical research in Washington (USA). He is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications listed on Medline-PubMed including Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet, Annals of Oncology, Oncoimmunology, Lancet Oncology, Oncologist, Cell Stem Cell. He is actually a member of the Editorial board of the high-indexed "Cancers" journal and guest editor for "Cancers" and "Frontiers in Oncology". Lastly, he is Editor-in-Chief of several academic textbooks in oncology for Springer Nature. Marc Peeters is a Professor of Oncology at Antwerp University, Belgium. He is head of the oncology department at Antwerp University Hospital and coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Oncology Center Antwerp. He is also chairman of the College of Oncology. Previously, he was Coordinator of the Digestive Oncology Unit at the University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium. He completed his medical studies at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. He underwent additional training in Oncology and Digestive Oncology at the UZ Gasthuisberg, the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, Paris, the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Peeters is board member of the Flemish Society of Gastroenterology, chair of the Belgian Group of Digestive Oncology and a member of the Belgian Society of Medical Oncology, the European Society of Medical Oncology, the American Society for Clinical Oncology and the gastrointestinal group of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer. Within EORTC, he is co-chair of the metastatic colorectal task force. His research interests have included the identification of molecular markers and therapy modulation in digestive tumors. He has been involved in many clinical studies on therapeutic agents for gastrointestinal tumors, published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and was author of several chapters in oncology books. Lorena Incorvaia is Assistant Professor at the University Medical School of Palermo (Italy). She is a medical oncologist, PhD in "Cellular, Clinical and Molecular Oncopathology" from the University of Palermo. Since 2018 is "Guest Lecturer" at the "Department of Molecular Imaging, Pathology, Radiotherapy and Oncology (MIPRO), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). She is in the national board of Italian Society of Medical Oncology (AIOM), section young oncologist, from 2019. Since April 2020 she is member of the PhD in Experimental Oncology and Surgery at University of Palermo, D
