Discipline
Programme mentors
Dr. Giancarlo Pruneri
Dr. Giancarlo Pruneri
Duration
3 - 6 months
3 - 6 months
Type
Visiting Observership
Visiting Observership
Language requirements
Intermediate level of English required if Italian isn't spoken
Intermediate level of English required if Italian isn't spoken
Programme description
The Department of Pathology of the National Cancer Institute of Milan includes Divisions of Surgical Pathology, Molecular Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, highly integrated and fully equipped with the most recent technologies, including next-generation sequencing platforms. Its mission is to provide clinically actionable diagnoses including all the prognostic and predictive data for patients with all cancer types except CNS tumors. The Department is also very active in translational research, focused on the discovery and the clinical relevance of predictive biomarkers, genomic and epigenetic profiling, and resistance to targeted therapy.
