2. В рамках программы "Профессорские дни", организованных совместно с кафедрой клинической иммунологии МГМСУ им. А.И.Евдокимова, кафедрой патологии Первого МГМУ им. И.М.Сеченова, Национальным исследовательским центром “Курчатовский институт”, Европейской ассоциацией предиктивно- превентивной и персонифицированной медицины (EPMA, Brussles, EU) и рядом американских и европейских университетов, был организован семинар для учащихся 9-10 классов по вопросам инструментов доклинической диагностики и терапевтической фармакопревенции, основанных на работе с потенциальными фармакотерапевтическими мишенями.

3. Director, Dept for Pathology and Diagnostics PRESIDENT, Teaching staff council for the Doctorate In Human Oncological Pathology and Council for the Department of Pathology

4. Biography Aldo Scarpa is professor of Pathology and Molecular Pathology. He is the Director of the Department of Pathology and Diagnostics and Director of the ARC-NET Research Centre for Applied Research on Cancer at the University and Hospital Trust of Verona. Dr. Scarpa received his MD from the University of Padova, and his PhD in Molecular Pathology from the University of Verona. Early in his medical career he served as a family practitioner and thereafter as deputy director of the Clinical Pathology Laboratory of the Military Hospital of Verona before completing his Residency in Pathology at the University of Parma. His career includes extended periods in renowned Institutions in Italy Europe, United States of America, and Japan where has spent one year at the National Cancer Center of Tokyo.

5. Dr. Scarpa has been a pioneer since the early ’80s in the application of molecular biology to the study of cancer. He founded Molecular Diagnostic Laboratories at Verona University (1990) and at the Cancer Centre in Cuenca- Ecuador (2001), performing population screening for cervical cancer using papilloma DNA testing, molecular diagnosis of leukemias and cancers for therapy decisions and follow up as well as characterization and monitoring of bone marrow transplantation. He is a proponent of biobanking, having begun tissue collections and cancer modelling in early 80’s. His research interests focus on cancer pathology and genetics and his work has been published in over 250 peer-reviewed publications. He is the Leader of the Italian project within the International Cancer Genome Consortium