Professor Raffaele Califano

Professor Raffaele Califano works as a Consultant Medical Oncologist at The Christie in Manchester, United Kingdom. He is also Full Professor of Medical Oncology (Manchester Academic Health Science Centre Honorary Clinical Chair) at The University of Manchester. Professor Califano has a special interest in thoracic malignancies and clinical cancer research and he is the clinical trials lead for the Lung Team at The Christie. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery, summa cum laude, from the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2003, completed his Specialist Training in Medical Oncology in 2007 and then worked for four years as Clinical Research Fellow with the Lung Team at The Christie. Professor Califano has been an investigator for several phase Ib-III clinical trials, developing a particular interest for trials evaluating molecularly targeted agents and immunotherapy in advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Small Cell Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma.  He serves as a member of the ESMO Publishing Working Group. He is also a member of the EORTC Lung Cancer Group, British Thoracic Oncology Group and IASLC. Professor Califano is the author of 100+ papers published in indexed peer-reviewed international journals and he has been an invited speaker to several national and international oncology meetings.

Non small cell lung cancer Small cell lung cancer Mesothelioma Immunotherapy Targeted therapies molecular profiling of tumor