Scopus ID: 7003672935

Prof. Bisogno is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Woman and Child’s health Department, Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant of the Padua University and Hospital. His clinical and research activities focus mainly on childhood solid tumors. He is the Coordinator of the Italian Soft Tissue Sarcoma Committee (STSC). Over the years, he has succeeded in empowering the group’s activities, promoting the launch of several clinical trials, and creating a multidisciplinary team that supports the activities of all Italian pediatric oncology centers by providing services for central diagnostic reviews, molecular biology characterization, real-time advice on difficult cases, and treat-ments not available elsewhere in Italy. He co-founded the European pediatric Soft tissue Sarcoma Group (2004) and if the Principal Investigator of the EpSSG RMS2005 trial, which has been registering patients from 150 European centers and includes two different randomized studies. He is leader or partner in several projects supported by different institutions, including European Community such as EPOC, ENCCA and EXPORNET and coordinator of PARTNER, a recently  funded project dedicated to create a European Registry for children with very rare tumors. He is responsible for Trial Office of the Pediatric Department of Padua.

Publications: 244 papers with a total impact factor of 1.234,494. Citations: H-index of 42 (Scopus). 9 book chapters published.

Grants (1999-2018). 12 grants as principal investigator and 10 as co-investigators, including 3 Ricerca Finalizzata, 1 AIRC, 5 European calls.

Memberships: Scientific Board of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (2008- 2010). Representative of the European clinical trial Groups in the Board of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology – Europe (SIOPE) (2013-2018). Member of the Innovative Therapy for Children with Cancer Consortium for new drugs research in pediatric oncology. Representative for the Hospital of Padua in the Paediatric Cancer European Reference Network (PAEDCAN ERN) (2017). Member of AssociazioneItaliana di Ematologia e OncologiaPediatrica (AIEOP). Member of the review board on rare diseases for the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (2020).

E-mail: gianni.bisogno@unipd.it