Endocrine Abstracts

Prof. Scarpa is Chair of the Department of Pathology and Diagnostics and Director of the ARC-Net Research Center for Applied Research on Cancer. He leads the Cancer Biobank Network Programme in the Veneto Region (Italy) (population 4 600 000). Chief of the Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Laboratory officially recognized by Veneto Government as one of two referral centres for cancer related molecular diagnostics in the region. Prof. Scarpa’s focus: translation into clinical practice of molecular subclassifications of cancers with prognostic-diagnostic-therapeutic relevance. Leader of the Italian effort in the International Cancer Genome Consortium (www.icgc.org) funded by Italian Ministry of Research and Ministry of Health. PI of Italian National Consortium for early diagnostics in cancer funded by Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC). He has participated in EU funded consortia such as MOLDIAG-PACA (www.moldiagpaca.eu), EPC-TM-NET (www.EPC-TM-NET.eu), CAM-PAC (www.cam-pac.eu). Over 360 publications in peer reviewed journals, 82 publications in the last 4 years.