Giulia Martina Cavestro: Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan. She serves as Director of the Clinical and Translational Research Unit for Hereditary and Young Onset Tumors and manages Colon Cancer Performance Indicators at San Raffaele Hospital’s Cancer Center.
Since 2015, she has led a multidisciplinary team for hereditary gastroenterological tumor syndromes, and since 2011, she has been Principal Investigator of the Institutional Biobanking project, exploring genetic and environmental links in GI cancers.
Dr. Cavestro has made seminal contributions to oncological research, including coordinating the first international clinical management guidelines for early-onset colorectal cancer, identifying a unique microbial signature in Lynch Syndrome, and leading the first multinational, multisociety Lynch Syndrome guidelines. She is coordinator of the DIRECt group on young onset colorectal cancer, the DEMETRA consortium, and a contributor to European and international guidelines on Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and pancreatic cancer. She also serves as local PI for the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database and the PANDoRA Consortium.