Prof. Antonio Giordano Temple University, USA

Antonio Giordano is an internationally recognized researcher specializing in genetics of cancer, the workings of the cell cycle, and gene therapy. He is the President and Chairman of the Board of the Sbarro Health Research Organization, which conducts research to diagnose, treat and cure cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other... read morechronic illnesses. Dr. Giordano is a Professor of Molecular Biology in the College of Science and Technology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a ‘Chiara fama’ Professor of Pathology at the University of Siena, Italy. He received his medical degree summa cum laude from the University of Naples, Italy and his doctorate in pathology from the University of Trieste Medical School. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York and at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where he studied under Nobel Laureate James Watson. He has published 318 papers on his work in the fields of cell cycles, gene therapy and the genetics of cancer and serves on a number of editorial boards including Cancer Therapy, Current Cancer Therapy Review and the International Journal of Oncology.