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Michelangelo Fiorentino

Associate Professor

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Academic discipline: MED/08 Pathology

Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

–          1992 M.D. Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna Italy (vote 110/110 cum laude).

–          1996 PhD. Modena University School of Medicine, Modena, Italy in General and applied biology of gastro-intestinal tract tumors.

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

–          1994-1995 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Harvard University, New England Deaconess Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, MA.

INTERNSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

–          2000 Residency in Diagnostic Oncology (vote 70/70 cum laude). Residency Program of Oncology, Bologna University.

LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION

–          1992 Licensure to Medical Practice (vote 110/100). Enrolled in the Board of Medical Doctors of Bologna since January 1993

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

–                    2019 Associate Professor of Pathology, Bologna University.   

-                    2017-2019 Associate professor of Clinical Pathology, , Bologna University, Italy.

–                    2010-2018. Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health. Boston, U.S.A. Course title: “Pathology for epidemiologists”

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS

–                    Since December 2000 Staff pathologist, S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

–                    January 2008 to December 2008. Staff pathologist and Associate Director, Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

–                    January 2009 – Head Laboratory of Oncologic and Transplantation Molecular Pathology, S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Italy.

-                    July 2019 - Directori Pathology Service Ospedale Maggiore, Bologna, Italy

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS

–          1995 Young Investigator Award of the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC).

–          2000 Pezcoller Young Investigator Award at the 91° Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), S.Francisco, U.S.A. April 1-4 2000.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

–          Member of the American Association for Cancer Research since 1995 and the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology since 2008.

MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

–          2001-2007 Supervisor of the Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Pathology Laboratory. Addarii Institute of Oncology. Bologna, Italy.

–          2008 Staff pathologist and Associate Director of the Center for Oncological Molecular Pathology. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

–          Since Januaty 2009 Head of the Laboratory of Oncologic and Transplantation Molecular Pathology at the Addarii Institute of Oncology. S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

-                     Molecular pathology with particular interest in molecular diagnostics of solid tumors.

-                     Bio-pathological correlations in prostate cancer with particular interest in immunohistochemical markers and imaging

-                    Histopathology of genito-urinary tumors (prostate, kidney, urinary bladder, testis, penile)

-                    Molecular analyses of bodily fluids

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Editorial board of “Clinical Cancer Research” and "Molecular Cancer Research"

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Molecular pathology of solid tumors with particular interest in prostate cancer and liver cancer.

Genito-Urinary histo-pathology.

Predictive molecular diagnostics applied to personalized oncologic medicine.

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