Francesco Forconi

Professor Forconi is a clinician scientist and leader of the Cancer B-Cell Group, comprising lymphoma scientists and clinicians in the University of Southampton Hospital, UK. His mentor was Professor Freda Stevenson, recipient of the American Society of Hematology Henry Stratton Medal. His research has always been to translate novel understanding of tumor biology to the clinic. He is dedicated to lymphoma pathogenesis, early diagnosis, prognosis and interception focusing on their immunoglobulin receptor. He has >170 publications on B-cell tumors linking laboratory to clinical findings. He is also UK lead of the international Early Cancer Research INitiative (ECRIN-M3), and member of the UK NCRI Lymphoma Science Group. He runs an extensive clinical trial portfolio, has served the National Institute for Clinical Excellence for several appraisals. He regularly presents his work to major international Haemato-Oncology meetings, and has major collaborators in Europe and North America.