Dr Sara Gandini

Sara Gandini has a degree in Statistics (University of Bologna, Italy), an MSc in Biometry (University of Reading, UK) and a PhD in Cancer Studies (University of Birmingham, UK). She is a senior invastigator in the division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan (Italy) providing constant consultation in a wide range of areas including statistical design of experiments and clinical trials, protocol development, analysis of data and interpretation of results.

She has conducted extensive research in cancer epidemiology, including systematical reviews and meta-analysies, with the goal of better understanding cancer aetiology. In the last years her main interest has been in melanoma epidemiology and on the role of Vitamin D in cancer epidemiology. She is the lead organizer of a multicentre Italian trial on Vitamin D supplementation for melanoma patients. 

She collaborated with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in Lyon (France), on several international working groups: artificial light and skin cancer; all avoidable causes of cancer; cancer following the Chernobyl accident; burden of cancer from asbestsos exposure; Vitamin D and human cancer; European cancer mortality atlas. She is author of a book “Meta-anlaysis in Epidemiology” (VDM edithor, 2009) and co-author of two IARC books: “Vitamin D and Cancer” (2008) and “Exposure to artificial UV radiation and skin cancer” (2006).

Since 2008 she has been lecturer at the Italian Melanoma Intergroup Master in ‘Management of melanoma patient: from research to therapy’.

She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications in International peer reviewed journals.

In 2008 she received the Bruno Martinetto Award for Research in Chemoprevention.