Andrea Biondi MD

Prof. Andrea Biondi is the Director of the Pediatric Department, Full Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza (MI) Italy, a reference center in Italy for pediatric hematology-oncology and congenital metabolic disorders.

He is the Scientific Director of the “M.Tettamanti” Research Center for leukemic and hematological diseases of children, and of “S. Verri” Cellular and Gene Therapy Laboratory, one of the first academic GMP facilities approved in Italy by the Regulatory Authority. He has been President of SIOPE, and Chair of AIEOP – the Italian National Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Study Group. He is a member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), European Hematology Association (EHA), and SIOP.

His research focuses on the molecular characterization of pediatric leukemia, either in terms of cloning and identification of new genes as well as in the use of molecular tools in clinical studies leading to the standardization of molecular techniques for the assessment of Minimal residual Disease in childhood ALL. Since 2007 he promotes several innovative pre-clinical and clinical research projects in the field of cellular and gene therapy for childhood ALL.