Functional genomics of cancer
Giovanni Tonon
Email: tonon.giovanni@hsr.it
Location: DIBIT2, A3, Floor 4
Director, Center for Omics Sciences
Group Leader, Functional Genomics of Cancer
Giovanni Tonon is full professor, the Director of the Centre for Omics Sciences and of the Functional Genomics of Cancer Unit at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy.
After obtaining his medical degree in the University of Padua in 1992, he has then completed his specialty in Haematology at the University in Milan in 1996. He immediately left for the US, where he joined the American Red Cross laboratories in Rockville, MD. In 1998 he entered in the ranks of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, where he remained until 2003. He then joined the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, as research associate and then as Instructor in Medicine.
In 2008, he joined San Raffaele Scientific Institute, where he leads the lab of Functional Genomics of Cancer. Since 2016, he is also the Director of the Center for Omics Sciences and from 2022 Full Professor at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
He is a grant reviewer for various charities and institutions, including the European Commission, The Wellcome Trust, UK, and the ERC.
His research has been published in high impact journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Cancer Cell, Nature Biotechnology, Cancer Discovery, PNAS, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Methods. He is inventor in 7 patents.
He has a long-standing interest in the identification and functional validation of genes and pathways associated with cancer, through genomic and bioinformatic approaches.
1992 Doctor of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy
1992 – 1996 Resident, University of Milan, II School of Hematology, Italy
1997 – 2001 Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Milan, Italy
1996 – 1998 Visiting scientist Platelet Biology Department, American Red Cross, Rockville, MD.
1998 – 2001 Visiting Fellow, Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
2001 – 2003 Research Fellow, Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
2003 – 2004 Research Associate, Medical Oncology Department, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
2004 – 2008 Instructor in Medicine, Medical Oncology Department, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
2008-date Unit Head, Functional Genomics of Cancer, Molecular Oncology Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy.
2016-date Director, Center for Omics Sciences, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy.
2022-date Professor, Vita-Salute University, Milano, Italy.
2024-date President, DIGICORE, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2006 - 2009 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Special Fellow Award.
2006 International Myeloma Foundation, Brian D. Novis Research Award.
2004 - 2006 Multiple Myeloma SPORE Career Development Award.
1998 – 2001 National Institutes of Health Post-Doctoral Traineeship Award.
1997 Foundation “A.Bianchi Bonomi” Scholarship.