Gianmarco Contino

Gianmarco Contino, MD PhD is an Associate Professor of Cancer Genomic Medicine and an Honorary Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Consultant at the University of Birmingham. He leads the Cancer Structural Variation and Aneuploidy Research Laboratory at the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences of the University of Birmingham. Previously he was a Clinical lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He trained as a surgical oncologist and translational scientist in internationally renowned institutions including the European Institute of Oncology (Milan), Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital (Boston), University of Illinois at Chicago and Imperial College (London). He is also a member of the of the Von Hügel Institute of Cambridge University and a contract Professor at the Campus Biomedico University of Rome. He is member of several scientific and research societies and he is currently serving as the communication chair and gastrointestinal cancer subgroup chair of the EORTC Pathobiology Group.

Gianmarco is a dedicated mentor of the next generation of scientists and oncologists and an advocate of equal access to science promoting the training of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. He is program lead of the Clinical Oncology MsC and module lead of the Cancer Pathology and treatment module of the BMedSc Clinical Sciences program at the University of Birmingham.

He published extensively on molecular biology and cancer genomics of Pancreatic and Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma. His research has been supported by Cancer Research UK, American Italian Cancer Foundation, the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Fondazione Umberto Veronesi, the National Institute for Health Research and the Imperial College NHS foundation.