Maria Vittoria Dieci, MD, is Associate Professor at the University of Padova, vice-director of the Specialization School in Medical Oncology at the same University and attending physician at the Division of Oncology 2 of the Istituto Oncologico Veneto in Padova. She specialised in Oncology in March 2012 at the University of Modena. From May 2012 to November 2013 she completed a 18-month-research experience at the Translational Research Unit (INSERM U981) of the Gustave Roussy Institute (Villejuif, France), and obtained the “Diplome Universitaire Européen en Recherche Translationnelle et Clinique en Cancérologie”. Since November 2013 she has been conducting research and clinical activity in the field of breast cancer at the University of Padova / Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS.

She is panelist of the Breast Cancer Guidelines by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology. Prof Dieci’s research production from 2008 up till now consists of more than 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Prof. Maria Vittoria Dieci has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies:

Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Novartis, Roche, Exact Science, Daiichi Sankyo, Gilead, Seagen.