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Umberto Veronesi
Umberto Veronesi was born on 28 November 1925 in Milan, the city where he has always lived and worked as a surgeon, researcher and a man of science and culture. Graduating in the early fifties he soon decided to dedicate his professional life to the study and cure of cancer and after two important study tours (in England and France) he joined the Istituto dei Tumori in Milan as a volunteer, becoming its general director in 1975.
His significant scientific and cultural contributions, which have been recognised and appreciated around the world, have brought him seven honorary degrees in medicine: two from Argentina, one from Brazil, one from Greece, one from Belgium, one from Kracow, one from Spain), two from the University of Milan and one from the University of Neaples.
In 1982 he founded the Scuola Europea di Oncologia (European School of Oncology), one of the world's leading research centres for the diagnosis and cure of cancer.
For twenty years he was the director of the Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori in Milan, before founding the Istituto Europeo di Oncologia.
President of the International Cancer Union until 1982, the Organizzazione Europea per le Ricerche sui Tumori (EORTC) from 1985 to 1988 and chairman of the Permanent Committee for Cancer Experts at the European Union for the Federation of European Cancer Societies (FECS) from 1991 to 1993. In 1994 he was appointed chairman of the "Committee of Cancer Experts" of the Commission of European Communities in the context of which he was the promoter of the only programme ever developed for the fight against cancer "Europe against cancer". Umberto Veronesi is the author of around 700 scientific papers and twelve oncological studies.
From May 1994 to April 2000 he was scientific director of the Istituto Europeo di Oncologia in Milan, where, from 1 July 2001 took up the same position.
From April 2000 to June 2001 he was the Minister of Health in the Italian government.