Monica Casiraghi

Dr. Casiraghi is Deputy Director of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at European Institute of Oncology in Milan and Assistant Professor of the Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology at the University of Milan, Italy. Since 2008, she worked at European Institute of Oncology in Milan where she became expert in thoracic oncology and minimally invasive techniques such as robotic surgery. She is the PI and co-PI in different projects and working group both for lung cancer, mesothelioma and thymoma treatments, and she is recently focusing her research on microbiome characterization both for the early detection of lung cancer and for more advance stage NSCLC treated with immunotherapy. She is the first author and co-author of many papers in peer reviewed international journals. Dr. Casiraghi is editor and reviewer of international journals. She is now board member of the Thoracic Domain and chair of the Surgical Oncology task force of EACTS, and member of ESTS Women in General Thoracic Surgery