Alfonso Bellacosa
Department of Cancer Epigenetics
Fox Chase Cancer Center
United States of America
Biography
Alfonso Bellacosa,Educational Background: PhD, Genetics, University of Paris, 2001-2004. Postgraduate School of Hematology, Catholic University Medical School, Rome, 1988-1992. MD, Catholic University Medical School, Rome, 1982-1988. University of Naples Second Medical School, 1981-1982. Honors & Awards: PhD, avec la mention Très Honorable, 2004. "Sir Paul Girolami" Award for Innovative Research in Biology and Medicine, presented by Nobel Laureates Edmund Fischer and Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1993. Fellowship from the Italian Association for Cancer Research, 1992-1994 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the "Lawrence Greenwald Foundation for Research on Leukemia and Lymphoma," 1989-1991. MD, 110/110 Summa Cum Laude, 1988.
Research Interest
Role of DNA Repair in the stability of the genome and epigenome. Regulation of DNA methylation and DNA demethylation in development and cancer. Targeted epigenetic therapy. Hereditary Cancer.
Publications
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Bellacosa, A. (2013). Developmental disease and cancer: biological and clinical overlaps. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 161(11), 2788-2796.
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Role of base excision repair in maintaining the genetic and epigenetic integrity of CpG sites
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Tricarico, R., Cortellino, S., Riccio, A., Jagmohan-Changur, S., Van der Klift, H., Wijnen, J., ... & Lucci-Cordisco, E. (2015). Involvement of MBD4 inactivation in mismatch repair-deficient tumorigenesis. Oncotarget, 6(40), 42892.
