Oncology and Haematology

Study, diagnosis and treatment of solid tumours and blood diseases, with particular focus on leukaemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, rare tumours and neuroendocrine tumours.

How research activities are organised

Dimec focuses its scientific research efforts in Research Study Centres (CSRs) established by resolution of the UNIBO Board of Directors. Research groups can carry out their research and study activities in the CSRs.

The field of research in Oncology and Haematology deals with the study, diagnosis and treatment of solid tumours and blood diseases, with particular focus on leukaemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, rare tumours and neuroendocrine tumours. The activity is carried out through study centres, research groups and highly specialised laboratories, which integrate cellular and molecular biology, immunology and cytogenetics. The lines of research aim to identify new biomarkers, develop innovative therapies, understand resistance mechanisms and promote personalised approaches in the clinical and translational fields.

Scientific-disciplinary sectors

A scientific-disciplinary sector is an academic category that groups together related disciplines to facilitate research, teaching and knowledge management. The field of General Surgery and Specialist Surgery includes teaching staff from the following sectors:

MEDS-09/A Medical Oncology
MEDS-09/B Blood Diseases

People

Maria Pilar Aparisi Gomez

PhD Student

keywords: Diagnostic imaging, Bone marrow, MRI

Annalisa Astolfi

Associate Professor

keywords: cancer genomics, next generation sequencing, sarcoma, gene expression profiling, induced pluripotent stem cells, tumor

Francesco Baccelli

PhD Student

Valentina Biagioli

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: cancer nursing, palliative care, self-care, health promotion, patient education, symptom monitoring, quality of life,

Francesco Biscotti

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Ribosome-inactivating proteins, Ricin, Cancer immunotherapy, Immunotoxins, Cell-death pathways

Angela Boccia

PhD Student

keywords: Cardio-oncology, Pharmacovigilance, Cardiotoxicity

Lorenzo Braccischi

Research fellow

keywords: Radiology, Interventional Radiology, Liver, HCC, ICC, Radioembolization, Chemoembolization, Biliary tract,

Filippo Branzanti

Research fellow

Alessandro Broccoli

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Hodgkin lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin lymphomas, Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Hairy cell leukemia, Histiocytic disorders

Chiara Cappello

PhD Student

Borsista di Ricerca - Post

Paolo Casadio

Associate Professor

Gastone Castellani

Full Professor

keywords: Biophysical models of biological functions, Complex networks, Statistical Biophysics, Data Science, Artificial

Arrigo Cattabriga

PhD Student

Francesco Cocco

PhD Student

keywords: Radiotherapy

Yuxin Dai

PhD Student

keywords: melanoma

Vincenzo D'Ambra

PhD Student

Ludovica De Panfilis

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

keywords: Medical Ethics, Empirical Bioethics, Palliative Care

Alessandro Di Federico

PhD Student

keywords: Thoracic Oncology, Lung Cancer, Immunotherapy, Precision Medicine

Emi Dika

Associate Professor

keywords: mohs surgery, skin cancer treatment, melanoma

Costanza Maria Donati

PhD Student

Research fellow

keywords: Palliative Radiotherapy, Pediatric Radioterapy, Pediatric Palliative Radioterapy, Pain, Pain Treatment

Martina Duca

Research fellow

keywords: Glycobiology of tumors, Tumor-associated glucidic antigens, Tumor molecular biology

Manuela Ferracin

Full Professor

keywords: Diagnostic and prognostic applications of microRNA/non-coding RNA expression profiles

Michele Fiore

PhD Student

Beatrice Fontana

PhD Student

Borsista di Ricerca - Post

keywords: Next Generation Sequencing, Cancer of Unknown Primary, Tumor molecular biology, Liquid Biopsy

Anna Francia

PhD Student

Giulia Gallerani

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: circulating tumor cells, cancer biology, lab-on-a-chip, single cell characterization

Cinzia Girone

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

Giorgia Gri

Associate Professor

Davide Leardini

PhD Student

keywords: Human microbiome, Pediatric leukemias, Hemopoietic cell transplantation

Peng Li

PhD Student

Pier Luigi Lollini

Full Professor

keywords: Vaccines, Oncology, Cancer research, Transgenic mice, Tumor immunology, Mammary carcinoma, Lung cancer,

Federico Magnani

PhD Student

keywords: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Dynamical Systems, Network Science, Knowledge

Giovanni Marconi

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Acute Leukemia, Myelodysplastic syndromes, Hematology, BPDCN, AML, ALL, MDS, CHIP

Giovanni Martinelli

Associate Professor

keywords: ACUTE MIELOID LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOBLASTIC ACUTE LEUKEMIA, CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA, CAR-T

Riccardo Masetti

Associate Professor

keywords: Pediatric MDS and JMML, Next generation sequencing, Pediatric acute myelooid leukemia, Hematopoietic stem cell

Francesco Massari

Associate Professor

keywords: Genitourinary tract neoplasms, renal cell carcinoma, prostate camcer, urothelial cancer, immunotherapy, resistance

Elisa Montacci

PhD Student

keywords: erbB family, circadian rhythms, perinuclear actin cap

Angelo Mottaran

PhD Student

Marco Pagano Mariano

PhD Student

Federico Pasini

PhD Student

Anna Myriam Perrone

Associate Professor

keywords: Gynecological Cancers, Ovarian cancer, Endometrial cancer, Vulvar cancer

Michele Puppi

PhD Student

keywords: Multiple Myeloma, CART cells therapy, bispecific antibodies

Giulia Querzoli

PhD Student

keywords: Salivary Glands

Ilaria Rizzello

Research fellow

keywords: Multiple Myeloma

Matteo Rosellini

PhD Student

keywords: biomarkers, renal cell carcinoma, genitourinary cancers, immunotherapy, targeted therapy

Romina Rossi

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Early Palliative Care, Palliative Radiotherapy, Integrative Medicine

Elisa Simonetti

PhD Student

Vincenza Solli

Research fellow

keywords: hematology, Multiple Myeloma, Biostatistics, bioinformatics, Machine Learning, R, SNPs Array, Copy Number Alteration,

Michela Valeria Rita Starace

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Lorenzo Trofarello

PhD Student

keywords: Aging, Aging-related diseases, Cancer, Senescence

Francesco Vasuri

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

keywords: Hepato-biliary and pancreatic pathology; and GI pathology, Uropathology, Immunohistochemistry, Molecular Biology

Federico Venturi

PhD Student

keywords: Melanoma, Skin Cancer, Dermoscopy, Confocal Microscopy, Mohs surgery, MiRNA

Pier Luigi Zinzani

Full Professor

keywords: Hodgkin's lymphomas, non-Hodgkin lymphomas, New therapies, Clinical trials, Lymphoproliferative syndromes