Consultant, Medical Oncologist
IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy, Italy
Emanuela Palmerini is a medical oncologist, serving at the Osteoncology, Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Innovative Therapies Unit at the IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, in Bologna, Italy, since 2005. Her clinical interests are bone and soft tissue tumours. She is he is leading the Phase I Unit Requirements Acquisitions and Maintenance Working Group and has acted as PI or co-I in more than 30 clinical trials in the treatment of sarcoma. She collaborates with the Research Laboratories at the IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, pioneering new treatments for these rare tumours abd with the Cell Therapy Laboratory and the Hemopathology Laboratory at the Institute of Haematology Seragnoli in Bologna, studying the role of tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy in sarcomas. She has been recognized several awards for sarcoma research and research grants. Since 2015 she is faculty member of the Annual Musculoskeletal Tumor Course at IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, she was invited faculty in several sarcoma courses (San Jose, Costa Rica; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cluj Nopoca, Romania) and Educational lecturer at ASCO Annual Meeting in 2018. She obtained a PhD in Oncology, Pathology, Haematology at Bologna University and she is member of “Clinical Research and Drug Strategies” Committee at Alliance Against Cancer. In June 2021 she was appointed the National Academic Qualification as Full Professor – Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology (06/D3). She is member of several scientific societies (ASCO, ESMO, ISG, CTOS, EORTC, SELNET). She is in the board of Director at European Musculo-Skeletal Oncology Society (EMSOS) and Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) 2021 Annual Meeting Co-Chair. From 2021 she is also member of the Euro-Ewing Consortium Radiation Oncology Working Group, and FOSTER Consortium Co-Chair. She has authored or co-authored more than 140 publications in indexed journals, 7 book chapters and 3 musculoskeletal tumors atlas (H-index 45).