Director of the Unit of Melanoma
Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics
Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale
Naples, Italy
Paolo A. Ascierto obtained his medical degree from the University of Naples, Italy, the institution
where he subsequently earned his Board Certification in Oncology. He went on to serve consecutive
positions at the National Tumour Institute “Fondazione G. Pascale”, in Naples, as a postdoctoral fellow and then as Vice Director of the Department of Clinical Immunology. Professor Ascierto is currently Director of the Department of Skin Cancers, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics at that same institution. He is Associate Editor for Onco-Immunology of Annals of Oncology, Associate Editor of Journal of ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, Chief Section Editor for Combination Strategies section of Journal of Translational Medicine, and member of the Editorial Board for ESMO Open. As a result of Professor Ascierto’s experience and expertise, he has been a valued invited speaker at more than 450 national and international meetings. Furthermore, he is an active member of the Italian Society of Medical Oncology (AIOM), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and Society of Immuno Therapy of Cancer (SITC). Professor Ascierto has presided as Principal Investigator on over 160 clinical trials and he is author of more than 550 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Such journals include: The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Nature Medicine, JAMA Oncology, and Annals of Oncology, among others. Primarily, his major research interests are the skin cancers molecular biology, the assessment of molecular markers for tumour progression in melanoma, biochemical and immunological monitoring, targeted therapies for melanoma, vaccination treatments and immunotherapy of solid tumors, and combination approaches for the cancer treatment.
