Pier Paolo Pandolfi

Pier Paolo Pandolfi
Born1963
Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Perugia, Italy
Scientific career
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Websitepandolfilab.org

Biography

Pier Paolo Pandolfi was an Italian geneticist and molecular biologist. From 2007 to 2019 he was the director of the cancer genetics program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard University teaching hospital;[1][2] in 2013 he became director of its Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute.[3] He was also George C. Reisman professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.[3] From 1994 to 2007 he was on the faculty of both the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University.[1][4] Pandolfi studied at the University of Perugia in Umbria in central Italy; his parents both died of cancer.[1] He was an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.[5] Pandolfi was elected as an AAAS Fellow in the Section on Medical Science for his “seminal contributions to the elucidation of the molecular genetics and biology of human cancer, which also led to the cure of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL)."[6]

Sexual misconduct allegations

Pandolfi was forced to leave Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2020 because a scandal of sexual harassment and sexual abuse allegations. He was back to Italy and appointed Director of The Istituto Veneto di Medicina Molecolare (VIMM) in Padua, but all the Scientific Committee of the Institute resigned, worried about an international scandal involving the Institute, and the board of directors of the Institute canceled the contract with Pandolfi[7][8][9][10][11].

gollark: Anyway, I think the problem is that `tracks` is meant to be an array.
gollark: Why did you make it *only* read 16 bytes of data?!
gollark: I thought about this at a rate of 0.7 Hz per square metre, and decided that 8KiB was good enough even with a really wasteful metadata format.
gollark: Well, you'd add both if you think `length` is better, and want to support old reader code.
gollark: Since it's JSON and not a weird proprietary format you can always just add both to your generated tape images.

References
  1. Virginia Gewin (9 May 2007). Movers: Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Director, Cancer Genetics Programme, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University. Nature 447 (May 2007): 228. doi:10.1038/nj7141-228a.
  2. Kolata, Gina (16 January 2018). "High-Fat Diet May Fuel Spread of Prostate Cancer". The New York Times.
  3. Bonnie Prescott (8 October 2013). Pier Paolo Pandolfi MD, PHD, to Head Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Archived 17 March 2017.
  4. Allen, Scott (16 February 2007). "Beth Israel Deaconess lures hot-shot cancer geneticist". Boston Globe.
  5. Our Faculty: Associate Members. Broad Institute. Accessed August 2019.
  6. BIDMC (20 November 2017) BIDMC’s Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, named AAAS 2017 fellow
  7. Pandolfi alla direzione del VIMM diventa un caso internazionale - Padova Oggi
  8. Pier Paolo Pandolfi, lo scienziato italiano via da Harvard per molestie: «È stata una sbandata, ho sbagliato e mi scuso, me ne sono andato io». - Corriere della Sera
  9. Scienziato italiano accusato di molestie via da Harvard. Il Vimm di Padova lo assume, ma l'intero comitato si dimette - La Repubblica
  10. Vimm, incarico revocato a Pandolfi per il caso molestie: il cda ha deciso all'unanimità - Il Gazzettino
  11. Former Harvard researcher who sexually harassed postdoc sparks turmoil at Italian institute - Nature
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