Adriana Albini

Biography

Scientific Director of Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus, Milan Adriana Albini, PhD, is an internationally celebrated researcher and serves as the scientific director of the Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus in Milan, Italy. With over 300 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and an H index of 78, Dr. Albini is one of the most consulted scientists in the world. Dr. Albini has spent most of her scientific and academic career in experimental and translational oncology. Her main fields of interest are angiogenesis, anti-angiogeneic gene therapy, chemoprevention, immunopathogenesis, invasion and metastasis, nanoparticles, nanotoxicology, the tumour microenvironment, and vascular biology. She has contributed to a variety of medical breakthroughs, including elucidating the main mechanisms of metastatic disease and angiogenesis, identifying novel functional domains and sequences of the HIV-tat protein, and originating the concept of “angioprevention,” amongst other unique contributions to the field of disease prevention. She developed new synthetic molecules and flavonoid derivatives for cancer prevention, and invented the most widely used in vitro invasion assay, a publication with over 1,900 citations. Dr. Albini’s extensive honors include the 2015 Special Recognition Award by the European Union Women Inventors and Innovators Network International (EUWIIN), as well as the 2014 Donne Che Ce L’hanno Fatta (Women Who Made It) award by the Provincial Council of Brescia. As a champion for women in the field of science, Dr. Albini has fostered the careers of other female investigators, contributed to WICR activities, and published for the Veronesi Foundation. A true polymath, Dr. Albini has also won the silver medal at the 2015 European Veteran Fencing championship, and has written and published six mystery novels under a pen name.

Research Interest

Dr. Albini’s extensive honors include the 2015 Special Recognition Award by the European Union Women Inventors and Innovators Network International (EUWIIN), as well as the 2014 Donne Che Ce L’hanno Fatta (Women Who Made It) award by the Provincial Council of Brescia. As a champion for women in the field of science, Dr. Albini has fostered the careers of other female investigators, contributed to WICR activities, and published for the Veronesi Foundation.