Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence

Florence, Italy

 

Alessandro Vannucchi is an Associate Professor of Hematology, past Director of the Specialty School in Hematology and a Member of the Board of Doctorate School in Experimental and Clinical Oncology at the University of Florence. His main interests relate to the myeloproliferative neoplasm and molecular genetics for hematologic neoplasia. He is the Principal Investigator of  several Research Projects supported in the last 5 years by the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Ministero per la Università e la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, and the Istituto Toscano Tumori. Principal Investigator and Italian coordinator of the AIRC 5perMille project-funded AGIMM group,  HYPERLINK “http://www.progettoagimm.it” http://www.progettoagimm.it. Board of the Working Party of Myeloproliferative Disorders of GIMEMA, Italy; the International Working Group for Myelofibrosis Research and Treatment (IWG-MRT);  the European LeukemiaNet Work Package 9. He is an Investigator of the Myeloproliferative Disorder Research Consortium (MPD-RC), funded by the National Health Institute, USA.  Past Vice President of  the Società Italiana di Ematologia Sperimentale. Dr. Vannucchi has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and has provided lectures at several national and international meetings, including SIE, SIES, EHA, ASH an several others.