Giuseppe Palmieri

Prof. Giuseppe Palmieri (born August 23rd, 1964, San Giuseppe Vesuviano (NA), Italy) is medical oncologist; he is actually Full Professor of Medical Oncology at University of Sassari and Head of the Unit of Cancer Genetics at the CNR of Sassari. He has been Research Director of the National Research Council (CNR) and Head of the Sassari Branch of the Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB-CNR), Sassari, Italy. He gained National-based Scientific Professional Qualification as University Full Professor in Medical Genetics.

Born

August 23rd, 1964, San Giuseppe Vesuviano (NA), Italy

Nationality

Italian

Education

University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy)

Fields

cancer genetics; translational medicine; molecular diagnosis in oncology.

Institutions

University of Sassari (2021-Present)

National Research Council (1998-2020)

Notes

Top Italian Scientist in Biomedical Sciences

Education and career

Education

• October 1988: Degree in Medicine & Surgery, University Federico II, Naples, Italy.
• October 1991: Specialization in Medical Oncology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy.
• 1992 – 1995: Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Oncology at National Tumour Institute “Pascale”, Naples, Italy.
• 1995 – 1996: Visiting Scientist, National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Centre, Frederick, MD, USA.
• 1996 – 1998: Research Fellowship at National Tumour Institute “Pascale”, Naples, Italy.

Career

• 2021 to date: Full Professor in Medical Oncology, University of Sassari, Italy - Immuno-Oncology and Targeted Cancer Biotherapies, Hospital-University Health Unit, Sassari, Italy.
• 2019 to date: Head of the Sassari Branch of the Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB), National Research Council (CNR), Sassari, Italy.
• 2006 to date: Head of Unit of Cancer Genetics, National Research Council (CNR), Sassari, Italy.
• 2010 – 2020: Research Director of the National Research Council (CNR), Italy.
• 2000 – 2009: Principal Researcher of the National Research Council (CNR), Italy.
• 1998 – 2000: Assistant Researcher of the National Research Council (CNR), Italy.

Research Interests

Prof. Palmieri is focusing his research activity on cancer genetics as well as on translational medicine and molecular diagnosis in oncology.

He served as President of the Italian Melanoma Intergroup/IMI (2017-2019).

He is author of >250 publications on indexed Journals, and several book chapters or monographs. He was invited as speaker-chairman at >200 national and international events (congresses, workshops, meetings, courses) in past ten years.

Selected Publications

• Luana Calabrò, Giulia Rossi, Aldo Morra, Claudio Rosati, Ornella Cutaia, Maria Grazia Daffinà, Maresa Altomonte, Anna Maria Di Giacomo, Milena Casula, Carolina Fazio, Giuseppe Palmieri, Diana Giannarelli, Alessia Covre, Michele Maio. Tremelimumab plus durvalumab retreatment and 4-year outcomes in patients with mesothelioma: a follow-up of the open label, non-randomised, phase 2 NIBIT-MESO-1 study LANCET RESPIRATORY MEDICINE, 2021, vol. 9, p. 969-976.

• G. Palmieri. Circulating driver gene mutations: what is the impact on melanoma patients’ management? ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY, 2019, vol. 30, p. 669-671.

• Giuseppe Palmieri, Maria Colombino, Milena Casula, Antonella Manca, Mario Mandalà & Antonio Cossu for the Italian Melanoma Intergroup (IMI). Molecular Pathways in Melanomagenesis: What We Learned from Next-Generation Sequencing Approaches CURRENT ONCOLOGY REPORTS, 2018, vol. 20.

• Giuseppe Palmieri, Maria Colombino, Antonio Cossu, Antonio Marchetti, Gerardo Botti & Paolo A. Ascierto. Genetic instability and increased mutational load: which diagnostic tool best direct patients with cancer to immunotherapy? JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MED., 2017, vol. 15.

• Milena Casula, Maria Colombino, Antonella Manca, Corrado Caracò, Gerardo Botti, Paolo A. Ascierto, Amelia Lissia, Antonio Cossu, Giuseppe Palmieri, for theItalian Melanoma Intergroup (IMI). Low Levels of Genetic Heterogeneity in Matched Lymph Node Metastases from Patients with Melanoma JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOL., 2016, vol.108.

• Francesco Sabbatino, Yangyang Wang, Giosuè Scognamiglio, Elvira Favoino, Steven A. Feldman, Vincenzo Villani, Keith T. Flaherty, Sjoerd Nota, Diana Giannarelli, Ester Simeone, Anna M. Anniciello, Giuseppe Palmieri, Stefano Pepe, Gerardo Botti, Paolo A. Ascierto, Cristina R. Ferrone, Soldano Ferrone. Antitumor Activity of BRAF Inhibitor and IFNα Combination in BRAF-Mutant Melanoma JOURNAL OF THE NATL CANCER INSTITUTE, 2016, vol.108.

• Giuseppe Palmieri, MariaNeve Ombra, Maria Colombino, Milena Casula, MariaCristina Sini, Antonella Manca, Panagiotis Paliogiannis, Paolo Antonio Ascierto, Antonio Cossu. Multiple molecular pathways in melanomagenesis: characterization of therapeutic targets FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY, 2015, vol. 108.

• Maria Colombino, Mariaelena Capone, Amelia Lissia, Antonio Cossu, Corrado Rubino, Vincenzo De Giorgi, Daniela Massi, Ester Fonsatti, Stefania Staibano, Oscar Nappi, Elena Pagani, Milena Casula, Antonella Manca, MariaCristina Sini, Renato Franco, Gerardo Botti, Corrado Caracò, Nicola Mozzillo, Paolo A. Ascierto, Giuseppe Palmieri. BRAF/NRAS Mutation Frequencies Among Primary Tumors and Metastases in Patients With Melanoma. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2012, vol. 30, p. : 2522-2529.

• Giuseppe Palmieri, Mariaelena Capone, Maria Libera Ascierto, Giusy Gentilcore, David F Stroncek, Milena Casula, Maria Cristina Sini, Marco Palla, Nicola Mozzillo & Paolo A Ascierto. Main roads to melanoma JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE, 2009, vol. 7, p. 86.

• M.C. Sini, A. Manca, A. Cossu, M. Budroni, G. Botti, P.A. Ascierto, F. Cremona, A. Muggiano, S. D’Atri, M. Casula, P. Baldinu, G. Palomba, A. Lissia, F. Tanda, G. Palmieri. Molecular alterations at chromosome 9p21 in melanocytic naevi and melanoma. BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, 2008, vol. 158, p. 243-250.

• Milena Casula, Maria Colombino, Maria P. Satta, Antonio Cossu, Amelia Lissia, Mario Budroni, Ester Simeone, Rosa Calemma, Cinzia Loddo, Corrado Caracò, Nicola Mozzillo, Antonio Daponte, Giuseppe Comella, Sergio Canzanella, Michele Guida, Giuseppe Castello, Paolo A. Ascierto, Giuseppe Palmieri On behalf of the Italian Melanoma Intergroup. Factors predicting the occurrence of germline mutations in candidate genes among patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma from South Italy. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER, 2007, vol. 43, p. 137-143.

• Milena Casula, Maria Colombino, Maria P. Satta, Antonio Cossu, Paolo A. Ascierto, Giovanna Bianchi-ScarràDaniele Castiglia, Mario Budroni, Carla Rozzo, Antonella Manca, Amelia Lissia, Annangela Carboni, Elisabetta Petretto, Sabrina M.R. Satriano, Gerardo Botti, Michela Mantelli, Paola Ghiorzo, Michael R. Stratton, Francesco Tanda, Giuseppe Palmieri. BRAF Gene Is Somatically Mutated but Does Not Make a Major Contribution to Malignant Melanoma Susceptibility: The Italian Melanoma Intergroup Study. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2004, vol. 22, p. 286-292.

• Giuseppe Palmieri, Paolo A. Ascierto, Francesco Perrone, Sabrina M.R. Satriano, Alessandro Ottaiano, Antonio Daponte, Maria Napolitano, Corrado Caracò, Nicola Mozzillo, Maria T. Melucci, Antonio Cossu, Francesco Tanda, Ciro Gallo, Rocco A. Satriano, Giuseppe Castello. Prognostic Value of Circulating Melanoma Cells Detected by Reverse Transcriptase–Polymerase Chain Reaction. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2003, vol. 21, p. 767-773.

• Helen Davies, Graham R. Bignell, Charles Cox, Philip Stephens, Sarah Edkins, Sheila Clegg, Jon Teague, Hayley Woffendin, Mathew J. Garnett, William Bottomley, Neil Davis, Ed Dicks, Rebecca Ewing, Yvonne Floyd, Kristian Gray, Sarah Hall, Rachel Hawes, Jaime Hughes, Vivian Kosmidou, Andrew Menzies, Catherine Mould, Adrian Parker, Claire Stevens, Stephen Watt, Steven Hooper, Rebecca Wilson, Hiran Jayatilake, Barry A. Gusterson, Colin Cooper, Janet Shipley, Darren Hargrave, Katherine Pritchard-Jones, Norman Maitland, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Gregory J. Riggins, Darell D. Bigner, Giuseppe Palmieri, Antonio Cossu, Adrienne Flanagan, Andrew Nicholson, Judy W. C. Ho, Suet Y. Leung, Siu T. Yuen, Barbara L. Weber, Hilliard F. Seigler, Timothy L. Darrow, Hugh Paterson, Richard Marais, Christopher J. Marshall, Richard Wooster, Michael R. Stratton & P. Andrew Futreal. Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer .NATURE, 2002, vol. 417, p. 949-954.

• Giuseppe Palmieri, Paolo A. Ascierto, Antonio Cossu, Nicola Mozzillo, Maria L. Motti, Sabrina M.R. Satriano, Gerardo Botti, Corrado Caracò, Egidio Celentano, Rocco A. Satriano, Amelia Lissia, Francesco Tanda, Mario Pirastu, Giuseppe Castello. Detection of Occult Melanoma Cells in Paraffin-Embedded Histologically Negative Sentinel Lymph Nodes Using a Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2001, vol. 19, p. 1437-1443.