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Silvia Uccella

Full Professor

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

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)
HUMANITAS GROUP

Humanitas is a highly specialized Hospital, Research and Teaching Center. Built around centers for the prevention and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular, neurological and orthopedic disease – together with an Ophthalmic Center and a Fertility Center – Humanitas also operates a highly specialised Emergency Department.