Role
Head of the Neuromed Biobanking Center at the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention at the Neuromed Institute in Pozzilli (Isernia); co-founder and member of the Moli-sani Study Steering Committee .
Bio
Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, 1968; specialization in Clinical and Laboratory Hematology, 1971; PhD in Pathophysiology, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, 1973. Honorary degrees , University of Debrecen , Hungary, 2000, and University of Bialystok , Poland, 2002.
He began his scientific activity, while still at university, on the interactions between blood coagulation and tumor growth and dissemination.
She founded and directed the Haemostasis and Thrombosis Research Laboratory, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, 1973; she is co-founder and scientific coordinator of the “Mario Negri Sud” Research Center, in Abruzzo, 1987. She founded and directed the Department of Vascular Medicine and Pharmacology, Catholic University, Campobasso, 2003.
Since 2013, he has been head of the Neuromed Biobanking Center, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Molise. His main scientific activity focuses on the interactions between thrombosis and oncological diseases, with the development of the " common soil " hypothesis, a genetic, pathophysiological, and environmental terrain shared by the main chronic-degenerative diseases.
She conducted pioneering studies on the use of anticoagulant drugs in certain tumors, founding the first international study group on this correlation in 1983. More recently, with the epidemiological study of the "Moli-sani" cohort, she analyzed the genetic and environmental factors of the combined risk of chronic-degenerative diseases related to " common soil ," particularly nutrition. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Veronesi Foundation and the Bracco Foundation. She is the author of over 700 international publications, more than half of which in collaboration with Giovanni de Gaetano. She speaks fluent English and French, and has an intermediate level of Flemish.