PIGNATARO LORENZO

DEGREE IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN 1986 (SCORE 110 CUM LAUDE, EXPERIMENTAL THESIS ON HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMAS). ADMISSION TO THE SPECIALTY SCHOOL IN OTOLARYNGOLOGY AND CERVICO-FACIAL PATHOLOGY IN 1986. SPECIALTY IN OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY AND CERVICO-FACIAL PATHOLOGY IN 1989 (SCORE 70 CUM/LAUDE).
INVESTIGATOR AT UNIVERSITY OF MILAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - INSTITUTE OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY OSPEDALE MAGGIORE IRCCS SINCE APRIL 1992 TO OCTOBER 2001.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SINCE 2001 AT UNIVERSITY OF MILAN.
PROFESSOR OF OTORHINOLARINGOLOGY IN THE FACULTY OF ODONTOSTOMATOLOGY AND DENTAL PROTHESIS SINCE 2001.
PROFESSOR OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY AT THE SPECIALTY SCHOOL IN OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY AND CERVICO-FACIAL PATHOLOGY AND IN NEUROSURGERY.
PROFESSOR OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY FOR AUDIOPROTHESIC AND LOGOPEDIA DEGREE COURSES SINCE 1995.
PROF LORENZO PIGNATARO IS PRESENTLY SUPERVISER OF THE TECHNICAL PART OF THE STUDY ON MICROSATELLITE ANALYSIS AND PROVIDE EXPERTISE FOR APPROPIATE REPRODUCIBILITY OF THIS TECHNIQUE IN THE GRANT PROJECT AIRC 2002: “MOLECULAR PREDICTORS OF RELAPSE IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER: PATHOLOGICAL STUDY AND CLINICICAL IMPLICATIONS”.
PROF. LORENZO PIGNATARO HAS BEEN INVOLVED FOR SEVERAL YEARS IN BIOLOGIC, THERAPEUTIC AND PROGNOSTIC ASPECTS OF HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGY. HE PUBLISHED MORE THAN 200 PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL JOURNALS ON HEAD AND NECK CANCER, PARTICULARY IN THE CLINICO-PATHOLOGICAL CORRELATION OF MOLECULAR ABNORMALITIES AND ONCOGENES INVOLVED IN LARYNGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMAS.