Pier Paolo Pandolfi

Pier Paolo Pandolfi is an Italian geneticist and molecular biologist. Since 2007 to 2020 he has been director of the cancer genetics program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard University teaching hospital;[1][2] in 2013 he became director of its Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute.[3] He is also George C. Reisman professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.[3] From 1994 to 2007 he was on the faculty of both the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University.[1][4]

Pier Paolo Pandolfi
Born
Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Perugia, Italy
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Websitepandolfilab.org

Pandolfi studied at the University of Perugia in Umbria in central Italy; his parents both died of cancer.[1] He is an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.[5]

Pandolfi was forced to leave Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2020, and to go back to Italy, because a scandal of sexual harassment and sexual abuse allegations. He was back to Italy and appointed Director of The Istituto Veneto di Medicina Molecolare (VIMM) in Padua, but all the Scientific Committee of the Institute resigned, worried about an international scandal involving the Istitute[6][7]

References
  1. Virginia Gewin (9 May 2007). Movers: Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Director, Cancer Genetics Programme, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University. Nature 447 (May 2007): 228. doi:10.1038/nj7141-228a.
  2. Kolata, Gina (16 January 2018). "High-Fat Diet May Fuel Spread of Prostate Cancer". The New York Times.
  3. Bonnie Prescott (8 October 2013). Pier Paolo Pandolfi MD, PHD, to Head Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Archived 17 March 2017.
  4. Allen, Scott (16 February 2007). "Beth Israel Deaconess lures hot-shot cancer geneticist". Boston Globe.
  5. Our Faculty: Associate Members. Broad Institute. Accessed August 2019.
  6. Pandolfi alla direzione del VIMM diventa un caso internazionale - Padova Oggi
  7. Pier Paolo Pandolfi, lo scienziato italiano via da Harvard per molestie: «È stata una sbandata, ho sbagliato e mi scuso, me ne sono andato io». - Corriere della Sera
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