Giulio Filippo Tarro
Foundation de Beaumont Bonelli for Cancer Research, Italy
Biography
Giulio Filippo Tarro has graduated from Medicine School, Naples University in 1962. He is the President Foundation de Beaumont Bonelli for Cancer Research. His basic researches have been concerned with antigens induced early during the replication cycle of human herpes viruses. Another study has involved the identification, isolation and characterization of specific virus-induced tumor antigens, which were the fingerprints left behind in human cancer. He is the recipient of the Sbarro Health Research Organization Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. His achievements include patents in field of discovery of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in infant deaths in Naples and of tumor liberated protein as a tumor associated antigen, 55 kilo Dalton protein overexpressed in lung tumors and other epithelial adenocarcinomas.
Abstract
Abstract : Workshop : Early diagnosis and prompt therapy for emerging flu viruses