The scientist from the Land of Fires climbs the world hit of the ‘Best Medicine Scientists‘, ranking drawn up by the Research.com platform. Antonio Giordanoa career between Italy and the United States, who with his studies has demonstrated the link between the illicit landfilling of waste controlled by the Camorra and tumors in Campania, this year gains position number 566 worldwide and number 374 in the USA in the Biology and Biochemistry discipline. “At my age, a great achievement, a source of pride”, comments the Neapolitan oncologist and pathologist, born in 1962, among the youngest in the ranking, to Adnkronos Salute.
A student of the American Nobel Prize winner James Dewey Watson at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory directed by the ‘father’ of the DNA double helix, Giordano is president and founder of the Sbarro Health Research Organization (Shro) at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he directs the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and the Biotechnology Center. On this side of the ocean he is full professor of anatomy and pathological histology at the University of Siena. In his CV he boasts several discoveries including “the direct link between the regulation of the cell cycle and the development of cancer – he recalls – with the demonstration that, for normal cells to transform into tumors, it is necessary for oncogenes to interact directly with cyclins, determining a deregulation of the cell cycle and therefore the onset of the neoplastic phenotype”.
Research that “made it possible to identify a new class of drugs against breast, lung and ovarian tumors – he underlines – and against mesothelioma”, the asbestos cancer whom Giordano also knows as “son of art”. His father Giovan Giacomo Giordano was “one of the first scientists to study and discover the very serious damage resulting from exposure to asbestos fibres. Also thanks to his research – he highlights – asbestos was outlawed in Italy in 1992 and at European since 1999”.
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