Dr. Doriano Fabbro

Biography

 Doriano  Fabbro, Chief  Scientific  Officer,  received  his  Ph.D.  in cell  biology  and biochemistry  at  the  University of Basel, where he worked afterwards for 12 years as Group Leader in Molecular Tumor Biology. In 1991, he joined the Oncology Group of Ciba-Geigy Basel. After the merger of Ciba-Geigy with Sandoz in 1996 he served at Novartis as Head of Kinase Biology until 2012. Doriano has contributed to the discovery and development of various protein kinase inhibitors for the treatment of cancer; e.g. Midostaurin®, Glivec®, Afinitor®, and Tasigna®. Doriano is author in more than 200 publications and numerous patents in the area of protein kinases regulation, structure, screening and drug discovery. He has been honored with the Novartis Oncology President’s Award (2005)  

Research Interest

 Protein kinases regulation, structure, screening and drug discovery