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Silvia Uccella

Associate Professor

Pathology

Associate Professor; Director of the Postgraduate Residency Program for Anatomical Pathology

E-mail

silvia.uccella@hunimed.eu

Education

1997 MD degree at University of Pavia (cum laude).
1997-2002 Residency in Pathology at University of Insubria (degree cum laude)
2006 PhD degree in Degenerative pathology and Immunopathology at University of Insubria

Academic background

2006-2017 Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Insubria
2017-2022 Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Insubria
2018-2022 Director of the Residency Program in Pathology, University of Insubria

Academic honors, awards and prices

1997 Luigi Casati Award, scientific session, for the MD degree thesis: “Prognostic morphological predictors in nonfunctioning neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas. Analysis of 61 cases”
2003 Pietro Lampertico Award of the International Academy of Pathology – Italian Division with the research project: “Morphological and molecular characterization of pulmonary and extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinomas”.
2010 Award of “Associazione Amici dell’Università dell’Insubria”, with the research project “Immunohistochemical and molecular profiles of diffusa large B-cell lymphomas of extranodal sites”.
2019-2022 Co-chair of the Endocrine Pathology Working Group of the Italian Society of Pathology and Cytology (SIAPEC)
2022-present Chair of the Endocrine Pathology Working Group of the European Society of Pathology (ESP)

Uccella S, Busam KJ, Inzani F, Osamura RY, Papotti M, Rekhtman N, Shia J. Chapter 8.1.2.2: Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. In: WHO Classification of Tumours Editorial Board. WHO classification of tumours series, 5th Edition. Endocrine and neuroendocrine tumours. Lyon, IARC Press, in press 2022
Uccella S, La Rosa S, Metovic J, Marchiori D, Scoazec JY, Volante M, Mete O, Papotti M. Genomics of High-Grade Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor with High-Grade Features (G3 NET) and Neuroendocrine Carcinomas (NEC) of Various Anatomic Sites. Endocr Pathol. 2021 Mar;32(1):192-210. doi: 10.1007/s12022-020-09660-z. Epub 2021 Jan 12. PMID: 33433884.
Uccella S, La Rosa S, Scaldaferri D, Monti L, Maragliano R, Sorrenti E, Gariboldi M, Taramelli R, Sessa F, Acquati F. New insights into hypoxia-related mechanisms involved in different microvascular patterns of bronchopulmonary carcinoids and poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas. Role of ribonuclease T2 (RNASET2) and HIF-1α. Hum Pathol. 2018 Sep;79:66-76. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2018.04.028. Epub 2018 May 12. PMID: 29763721.
Magnoli F, Bernasconi, B, Vivian L., Proserpio I, Pinotti, G, Campiotti L., Mazzucchelli L, Sessa F, Tibiletti, MG, Uccella S. Primary extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphomas: Many sites, many entities? Clinico-pathological, immunohistochemical and cytogenetic study of 106 cases. Cancer Gen. 2018 Dec,228-229:28-40.
Uccella S, Blank A, Maragliano R, Sessa F, Perren A, La Rosa S. Calcitonin-Producing Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Pancreas: Clinicopathological Study of 25 Cases and Review of the Literature. Endocr Pathol. 2017 Dec;28(4):351-361. doi: 10.1007/s12022-017-9505-4. PMID: 29063495.