5^th Cancer Diagnostics & Treatment Conference

Biography

Clara Balsano is currently working as associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of L’Aquila (Italy), since 1992. She is the head of Clinical and Biomolecular Hepatology Unit at the University of L’Aquila, Department of Internal Medicine, since 1993. She is also the Head of the laboratory of “Viral and Molecular Oncology” at the Andrea Cesalpino Foundation, since 2003and the head of the laboratory “Pathology of Development”, IRCCS SR-La Pisana, since 2005. She occupied full Professor of Internal Medicine and Chair of Clinical Hepatology Unit at the University of L’Aquila, since 2007.she detached to the Ministry of Research, in 2009, to collaborate for the laboratories reconstruction, after the earthquake of the 6 April of the same year. In the same period she participated in writing the National Research Program.

Research Interest

Molecular mechanisms of HCV infection, Immune response to hepatic viruses infection, Diagnostic and clinical aspects of chronic hepatitis B and C