Lorenzo Galluzzi is Assistant Professor of Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology with the Department of Radiation Oncology of the Weill Cornell Medical College (New York, NY, USA), Honorary Assistant Professor Adjunct with the Department of Dermatology of the Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, CT, USA), and Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology with the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of the Weill Cornell Medical College (New York, NY, USA), as well as Faculty Member with Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology of the University of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy), the Graduate School of Pharmacological Sciences of the University of Padova (Padova, Italy), and the Graduate School of Network Oncology and Precision Medicine of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Rome, Italy). Lorenzo did his post-doctoral training at the Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, France after receiving his PhD from the University Paris Sud.
Lorenzo’s work has focused on the fields of cell death, autophagy, tumour metabolism and tumour immunology. He is investigating the links between adaptive stress responses in cancer cells and the activation of a clinically relevant tumour-targeting immune response in the context of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
He is also Associate Director of the European Academy for Tumor Immunology (EATI) and Founding Member of the European Research Institute for Integrated Cellular Pathology (ERI-ICP).
Lorenzo has published more than 500 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has numerous awards including Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2021and 2022 (Immunology, Molecular Biology & Genetics and Pharmacology/Toxicity), an honour awarded to only few other scientists worldwide, across all disciplines.
Lorenzo is Editor-in-Chief of four publications: OncoImmunology (which he co-founded in 2011), International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, Methods in Cell Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncology (which he co-founded in 2013).
In addition, he has editorial roles in a further eight journals and has also held multiple guest editor roles in the recent past.