Lifetime Achievement Award for Ethics and Professionalism in Medical Research
The Chairperson of the GYNOCARE COST Action, Prof. Jean Calleja-Agius, has been presented with the Giovan Giacomo Giordano NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award for Ethics and Professionalism in Medical Research.
This award was established in 2010 in honour of the late Prof. Giovan Giacomo Giordano, renowned pathologist and former chair of the Department of Pathology, National Cancer Institute of Naples and professor at the Federico II University of Naples, who dedicated more than sixty years of his life to the study of cancer and the role of environmental factors in the onset of this disease. Prof. Giovan Giacomo Giordano was also a major advocate against corruption in the Italian medical community and the driving force for the establishment of medical ethical standards among his colleagues.
The award was presented to Prof. Jean Calleja-Agius by Prof Antonio Giordano, son of the late Prof. Giovan Giacomo Giordano, and who himself is a Professor of Molecular Biology at Temple University in Philadelphia and a 'Chiara fama' Professor in the Department of Pathology and Oncology at the University of Siena, in Siena, Italy. Prof. Antonio Giordano, who is the leader of WG4 of the GYNOCARE COST Action, is also the Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and the Center for Biotechnology at Temple's College of Science & Technology in Philadelphia, USA.
The award ceremony took place on 18 February 2023 at the Aula Bottazzi, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy. This was the first time that this award was ever awarded to a non-Italian or Italian-American professional.
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