We are a group of researcher of Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (Milan, Italy). We are members of the Laboratory of Lifestyle Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, and of the Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Oncology.
Silvano Gallus
Dr Silvano Gallus is the Head of Laboratory of Lifestyle Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”. Since 1997, Dr. Gallus has been a researcher at the Department of Epidemiology of “Mario Negri” Institute and was in 2006 promoted to chief of the “Epidemiology for Clinical Research” Unit. In almost 20 years of experience in the field of epidemiology and public health, Dr. Gallus has gained wide knowledge and expertise in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics and computation, collaborating in various national and international projects. Since 2001, Dr. Gallus is responsible for the epidemiology of tobacco smoking in his Institute. He has therefore dealt with the monitoring of smoking prevalence and trends, their determinants and strategies to control tobacco in Italy and Europe. The productivity of Dr. Gallus’ research is documented by the publication of more than 240 publications, including more than 225 papers (h-index: 37 according to ISI web of knowledge) published in peer-reviewed journals.
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Cristina Bosetti
Cristina Bosetti holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Milan, Italy and a PhD in Epidemiology from the School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. She has been working as a research scientist at the Department of Epidemiology of the “Mario Negri” Institute since 1996 and since 2005 she is Head of the Unit of Cancer Epidemiology. Her main fields of interest include the investigation of cancer risk in relation with diet, alcohol, tobacco, occupational and environmental exposures; analyses of temporal trends and geographic patterns of mortality from cancer and other chronic conditions; conduction of quantitative reviews and meta-analyses on environmental exposures and cancer risk. She authored/coauthored over 320 publications on peer-reviewed journals cited in PubMed/MEDLINE (H-index: 51, ISI web of knowledge).
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Alessandra Lugo
Alessandra Lugo holds a degree in Biostatistics from the University of Milan-Bicocca, and a PhD in Biomedical Statistics from the University of Milan. She is researcher at the Department of Epidemiology of Mario Negri Institute since 2011. Since the beginning of her career, she was involved in the field of tobacco control in Italy and Europe. In only 5 years, she published more than 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
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Other collaborators
- Vincenzo Bagnardi, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Elisa Borroni, Laboratory of Lifestyle Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy
- Alessio Crippa, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Xiaoqiu Liu, Laboratory of Lifestyle Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy
- Vanessa Merenda, Laboratory of Lifestyle Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy
- Nicola Orsini, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Giulia Peveri, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Matteo Rota, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
- Claudia Santucci, Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy
- Marco Scala, Laboratory of Lifestyle Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy
- Valeria Valsassina, Laboratory of Lifestyle Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy