Filippo G. Giancotti, MD, PhD, an expert in cancer metastasis and professor at Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, died on July 14, 2023, at the age of 65.
Giancotti received his medical degree and a doctorate in cell biology from the University of Torino in Italy. He moved to the United States to conduct postdoctoral research in cellular adhesion and signaling from 1988 to 1991 at the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, now the Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center in La Jolla, California.
He taught pathology at New York University, becoming an associate professor in 1996, and then joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he became a professor at the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
In 2016, he joined MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston as scientific director of the David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, co-leader of the Prostate Cancer Moonshot Program, and the Olla S. Stribling Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research. He moved to Columbia in 2021 as Herbert and Florence Irving Professor in Basic Science (Cancer) in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC), professor of genetics and development, and leader of the Tumor Metastasis Initiative in HICCC.
Giancotti was an author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. His work had been supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1998. He received a MERIT Award from the National Cancer Institute in 2003 and was among the inaugural group of recipients of the NCI Outstanding Investigator Awards in 2015. He had been a member of the AACR since 2008.
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