Biography

After graduating in Medicine, I   completed my training in Histopathology with a dissertation on HTLVIII/LAV (later HIV) lymphoadenopathy. From 1987 I worked in Oxford on the translocation 14;18, the expression of bcl2 protein and their roles as diagnostic markers in lymphomas.  In 1994 I moved to Milan and two years later to London where I started to work on cancer and blood vessels demonstrating for the first time that advanced cancers can growth in absence of angiogenesis, by exploiting pre existing vessels (vessels co-option). Since moving back to  Oxford where I have been working on cancer and blood vessels and, as clinician, in the diagnosis of lymphoid and haemopoietic malignancy.