Prof. Casali Paolo G.

Paolo Giovanni Casali is the Director of the Medical Oncology Unit 2 (focusing on adult sarcomas and rare cancer networking) at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy, where he also serves as the Secretary of the Clinical Ethics Committee and the Secretary of the Regional Ethics Committee 4 of 

Lombardia Region. He is Associate Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Milan. 

His clinical and research activities focus on sarcomas, mainly adult soft tissue sarcomas and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). He served as the Secretary of the Italian Sarcoma Group from 2002 to 2021, currently being a member of its Technical-scientific Committee, and is a member of the Soft Tissue & Bone Sarcoma Group of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). He is a member of the Sarcoma Faculty of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO). 

He chairs the Sarcoma domain of EURACAN, the European Reference Network on rare adult solid cancers. 

He is a member of the Coordination group of the Italian National Network on Rare Cancers and a member of the Coordinating body of the Regional Oncology Network of Lombardia Region. He coordinated the Joint Action on Rare Cancers (JARC) of the European Union, carried out between 2016 and 2019, and is currently coordinating the Joint Action on Networks of Expertise (JANE). In past years he served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), of the Board of Directors of the European CanCer Organization (ECCO) and the Board of Directors of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS). 

He is (co)author of more than 350 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals Scopus (h-index: 106).