Francesco Grossi

Professor Francesco Grossi is currently Director of the Division of Medical Oncology and Associate Professor at the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy. His major interests, apart from lung cancer and mesothelioma, are translational research in thoracic oncology and new drug development. He is the principal investigator and coordinator in international and national clinical trials and project leader in translational studies. He received his medical degree from the University of Genova in Italy and served an internship and residency in biochemistry and oncology in the same University. Prior to this current position, he was Deputy Head at the Division of Clinical Oncology at the University of Udine (1999- 2003), Director of the Lung Cancer Unit and Lung Cancer Translational Research Lab and Chairman of the Disease Management Team Lung Cancer at the National Institute for Cancer Research in Genova, Italy (2003-2018) and Director of the Division of Medical Oncology at the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milano, Italy (2018-2021). In 1997, he received the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) merit award and in the same year the AIOM (Italian Association of Medical Oncology) merit award. From 2008 to 2012 he was a Member of the National Committee of Cancer Prevention at the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Policy. He is an active member of several international societies including ASCO, ESMO and IASLC. He has authored more than 200 articles indexed in PubMed. He has been invited to give lectures in numerous national and international meetings.