Raffaele Califano

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ABOUT RAFFAELE CALIFANO

Professor Raffaele Califano works as a Consultant Medical Oncologist at The Christie and Manchester University Hospital both in Manchester, United Kingdom. He is also Professor (Manchester Academic Health Science Centre Honorary Clinical Chair) at The University of Manchester. Professor Califano has a special interest in thoracic malignancies and clinical cancer research and he is an active member of the Manchester Lung Cancer Group.He graduated in Medicine and Surgery, summa cum laude, from the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2003 and completed his Specialist Training in Medical Oncology in 2007. From 2008 to 2012, Prof Califano worked as Clinical Research Fellow with the Lung and Melanoma Team at The Christie where he trained in advanced trial design and management. Prof Califano has been an investigator for several phase clinical trials in Lung Cancer, developing a particular interest for molecularly-driven clinical trials in advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer. Professor Califano leads on immunotherapy studies in lung cancer.Professor Califano serves as Member of the Educational Publication Working Group of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO). He is also a member of British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) and International Association of Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)Prof Califano is the author of several papers published in indexed peer-reviewed international journals, he acts as peer reviewer for a number of medical journals and he has been an invited speaker to several national and international oncology meetings.