Tumor biology and vascular targeting

Angelo Corti

Angelo Corti

Email: corti.angelo@hsr.it
Location: DIBIT1

Group Leader, Tumor biology and vascular targeting
Full Professor, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele

Angelo Corti is presently Full Professor of Biochemistry at the San Raffaele University of Milan, Italy. He received his doctorate in Biology in 1979 at the State University of Milan and was trained in the Laboratory of Chemical Biology of the same university. In 1982 he has been Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory of Biochemistry of the National Institute of Health (Bethesda, USA) and in 1983 he joined the Merrel-Dow Research Institute in Milan. In 1988, he joined the Boheringer Mannheim Research Center of Monza, Italy and from 1994 he is the head of the Tumor Biology and Vascular Targeting Unit, of San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan.  From 2014-2023 he also served as Director of the Division of Experimental Oncology of the same Institute. During his carrier Angelo Corti has also served as supervisor and mentor of 34 postdoctoral research fellows, 46 medical and graduate students, and 7 PhD students, and as a reviewer for various scientific journal and grant agencies. He has also organized/chaired various international conferences and had a role as principal investigator of >32 research projects, granted from Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Association for International Cancer Research (UK), Cancer Research Institute (USA), Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica, Ministero della Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità of Italy, Metadistretti-Regione Lombardia; Italian Institute of Technology, FIRB, Fondo Investimenti Ricerca di Base, Programma Nazionale delle Ricerche, Alleanza Contro il Cancro, Compagnia San Paolo, and Pharmaceutical Companies. His work led to the publication of >240 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals (IF >16000, H index 69) and to 37 patent applications in the diagnostic and therapeutic fields of cancer.

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