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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Daniele D. Bodini, Chairman
Philip Olivetti, Secretary
Francesca Agostinelli
​Robert F. Agostinelli
​Lamberto Andreotti
Raymond C. Avansino, Jr.
Francesca Bodini
Gian Andrea Botta
Alberto Cribiore
Claudio Del Vecchio  
Massimo Ferragamo
​Jack A. Fusco
Mario J. Gabelli
Joseph R. Perella
Ottavio Serena di Lapigio

Honorary Board

H.E. Marco Peronaci
Ambassador of Italy to the United States

The Hon. Fabrizio Di Michele
Consul General of Italy in New York


Founders

Alessandro di Montezemolo †
Umberto Veronesi, MD
†

STAFF

Cristina Aibino, Executive Director
Giorgio Castoldi, Director of Philanthropy 
Kristy Guerrero, Outreach Coordinator
Eridania Santos, Patient Navigator

Ruth Vega, Director of Cancer Screening, Outreach, and Education






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SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Executive Committee

Massimo Loda, MD, ​Scientific Advisory Board Chairman 
David D. Thompson Professor & Chairman
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine


Cory Abate-Shen, PhD
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Professor of Urologic Sciences
Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and of Systems Biology
Chair, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Robert Sonneborn Professor of Medicine
Columbia University 

Roberto Chiarle, MD
Full Professor of Pathology
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Director of Hematopathology

European Institute of Oncology (IEO)
Professor of Pathology
Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino



Giulio Draetta, MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center Director
Sewell Family Distinguished University Chair
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Nicola Fabbri, MD
Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Chief, Division of Musculoskeletal Oncology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center 
NYU Langone Health

 
Lucia Languino, PhD
Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
Director, Genetics, Genomics, and Cancer Biology PhD Program
Thomas Jefferson University

 Michele Pagano, MD
Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Ellen and Gerald Ritter Professor of Oncology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
New York University School of Medicine

Virgilio Sacchini, MD
Attending, Breast Service
Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center 

Cora N. Sternberg, MD
Clinical Director, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
 
Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD
Member
Cancer Biology and Genetics Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Members

Claudio Basilico, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Microbiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Paul A. Bunn Jr., MD

Distinguished Professor of Medicine
James Dudley in Lung Cancer Research
University of Colorado
Denver School of Medicine


Franco Cavalli, MD
Scientific Director
Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland

Alberto Costa, MD
Scientific Director 
European School of Oncology

José Costa, MD
Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Senior Research Scientist

Yale School of Medicine

​Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD
Director, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

Columbia University

Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., MD
Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology

Yale School of Medicine

Pier Paolo Di Fiore, MD, PhD
 Professor of General Pathology
Department of Health Science
University of Milan


Thomas J. Fahey, Jr., MD
Chief of Endocrine Surgery
Professor of Surgery and General Surgeon Endocrinology
Weill Cornell Medical College and NY Presbyterian Hospital

Luca Gianni, MD
Director of the Department of Medical Oncology
Head of Project of Development of New Drugs and Innovative Therapies in Solid Tumors 
San Raffaele


​Anna Lasorella, MD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Cente
r

​Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery
New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell

Larry Norton, MD
Deputy Physician-in-Chief 
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center


Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, MD, PhD
Chairman, Department of Experimental Oncology
European Institute of Oncology

John Petrini, PhD
Member and Chair, Molecular Biology Program
Paul A. Marks Chair of Molecular Cell Biology

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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Gabriella Sozzi, PhD
Professor, Head of Genomics Unit
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori


Andrea Velardi, MD
Professor of Hematology and Clinical Immunology
University of Perugia, School of Medicine

Roy S. Weiner, MD
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Tulane  University School of Medicine
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