Marco Foiani

Marco Foiani is Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Milan and, since 2009, Scientific Director of IFOM, an international cancer center that hosts 20 groups and 300 scientists. Two research groups are operating in IFOM outstations located in Singapore (at ASTAR-p53 Laboratory and at the Mechano Biology Institute of NUS) and one in Bangalore, India, (at inSTEM & NCBS). At IFOM, Foiani is responsible for the research strategic planning, the development of programs aimed at the results reduction into practice and for the establishment of national and international co-operation programs and joint ventures. He is the founder of the European Nanomedicine Foundation (CEN) that aims at supporting multidisciplinary projects/teams in biomedicine. Since 2012 he directs a cancer genetics diagnostic laboratory within Cogentech.