Liliana Varesco

Positions and Employment 1987-1990 Fellow, Molecular Analyis of Mammalian Mutations, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London 1991-1993 Postdoctoral Research fellow, Immunogenetics Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Genova 1993-1995 Research Assistant, Immunogenetics Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Genova 1995-2002 Research Assistant, Experimental Oncology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Genova 2002-2022 Head of Hereditary Cancer Unit, National Cancer Institute, Genova [from August 2018 named IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova] Other Experience and Professional Memberships 1996 Member of the 'Genetic Testing Committee' - Italian Oncology Committee 1997 Member of the 'Working Group on Genetic Testing' - Italian National Institute of Health 1998- Member of the Italian Society of Human Genetics (SIGU) 2001- Co-Founder and Member of the Italian Association for the Study of Familial and Hereditary Gastrointestinal Cancer (AIFEG), that became Association for the Study of Familial and Hereditary Tumors (AIFET) in 2021 2004-2012 Member of the International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours (InSight) 2009- Member of the Evidence-based Network for the Interpretation of Germline Mutant Alleles (ENIGMA) 2010- Member of the expert panel for cancer genetic testing, Italian National External quality assessment program, Italian National Institute of Health 2011- Member of the Italian Public Health Genomics Network (GENISAP) 2013 Member of the “Breast Unit Working Group”, Ministry of Health 2015-2018 Coordinator of the Cancer Genetics working group of the Italian Society of Human Genetics (SIGU) 2014- Member of the Steering Committee of the OncoGenEthic Forum, supported by SIGU (2014-2022) and by AIFET (2023- ) 2016- Member of the Scientific Committee of aBRCAdaBRA Onlus, the Italian association of individuals carrying BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants