Valentina Guarneri

Valentina Guarneri, MD, PhD, is a full professor of oncology at the University of Padova, Italy, and director of the Oncology 2 Division at the Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS. She is director of the specialty programme in medical oncology, chair of the multidisciplinary Breast Unit, and director of the Master’s degree programme in clinical research in oncology. Professor Guarneri completed her fellowship in oncology in 2003 and obtained her PhD in clinical and experimental oncology in 2007. In 2005, she completed research experience in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, where she also was a visiting assistant professor in 2009. In 2005, she was appointed as assistant professor of oncology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, where she also chaired the Breast Unit from 2011 to 2013. She moved to the University of Padova in 2013, where she was appointed as associate professor of oncology. From 2015 to 2018, she was a member of the research committee of the Italian Ministry of Health. Professor Guarneri was a long-standing member of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Fellowship and Award Committee, Oncology Pro Working Group and ESMO Young Oncologists Committee (YOC). She is also a founder member of the Women for Oncology Italy initiative (a national spin-off of the ESMO initiative). She is a member of the editorial review board of several international journals, including The Lancet Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, The Oncologist, and Clinical Breast Cancer.

Her research interest is mainly focussed on clinical and translational research for breast cancer patients. She has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 400 lectures at national and international conferences.