Alfredo Addeo
Professor of Oncology, Geneva University Hospital
Professor of Oncology, Geneva University Hospital
Professor Alfredo Addeo, an international expert in thoracic cancers, is the chief oncologist and head of the Oncology Service of the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) and head of the Lung Cancer Centre. After obtaining his medical degree from the University of Turin (Italy) in 2001, he worked for four years in the University's Oncology Centre to complete his oncology profile. He spent 2 years in the Immunology Laboratory at Pre Bellone studying the activity of dendritic cells in cancer.
He continued his career in oncology at the San Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Turin as head of outpatient oncology. From 2010, he spent 7 years training in medical and translational oncology in England at Lincoln county hospital and then at the Bristol haematology and oncology centre, where he became head of thoracic cancer.
He joined the HUG in 2017 as an assistant physician in the Oncology Department. He became an associate doctor in 2021 after receiving his title of “privat-docent”. His thesis: Biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer is available on the University of Geneva website.
Prof Addeo is involved in a number of national and international societies:
Vice-President of the Lung Cancer Project Group of the Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK).
Member of the ESMO faculty, thoracic group, and member of the European society for medical oncology (ESMO).
Member of the European thoracic oncology platform (ETOP)
Member of the European organisation for research and treatment of cancer (EORTC)
Professor Addeo has published over 180 scientific papers to date.