Managing Director
Prostate Cancer Biology
Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland
Switzerland
Giuseppina Carbone obtained her MD degree in 1983 and completed her clinical residency in 1987 at the University of Naples Medical School, Naples, Italy. In 1988 she moved to the USA and trained in basic research at Wake Forest University Medical Center (Winston-Salem, NC) in the Department of Physiology Pharmacology. From 1994 she was senior fellow at the Hollings Cancer Center in the Department of Experimental Oncology of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. In 2001 she was appointed as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. In July 2003 she joined the Laboratory of Experimental Oncology at the IOSI in Bellinzona as senior investigator and she is at present Group Leader for the prostate cancer biology program.