Claudia Voena

Claudia Voena is currently an Associate Professor in Laboratory Medicine at the University of Torino in the Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences. She is a recipient of a Biology degree and a PhD in Experimental Hematology. She is also board certified in Clinical Pathology. During her PhD she developed new approaches for the detection of minimal residual disease in hematological malignancies under the guidance of Prof. Paolo Corradini at the University of Torino and then, moved to the Istituto San Raffaele in Milan, to keep studying minimal residual disease and set up a lab of molecular diagnostics for hematological malignancies. As a senior scientist, Claudia worked with Prof. Giorgio Inghirami and Prof. Roberto Chiarle at the University of Torino and at the Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA. During this time, she investigated mechanisms of lymphomagenesis, mainly related to the ALK oncogene, and became an expert of ALK driven tumors. She is a member of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) and Società Italiana Ricerca Traslazionale e Professioni Sanitarie (SIRTEPS). She is also part of the research network ERIA (European Research Initiative on ALK-related malignancies).