Stefano Bonassi was born in 1956 in Genoa, Italy. A specialist in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, he is a full professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at San Raffaele University in Rome. He has also directed the Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology Unit at IRCCS San Raffaele Rome since 2009. He was previously Head of the Molecular Epidemiology Unit at the National Institute for Cancer Research in Genoa, Italy.
His main field of interest is the study of markers of chromosomal instability and DNA damage as predictors of the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic degenerative diseases. He is coordinator of epidemiology in large international projects for the validation of biomarkers and is involved in the etiological, prognostic, and rehabilitation aspects of major chronic degenerative diseases in a personalized medicine setting.
From 2009 to 2013 he served as world president of IAEMS. He was appointed European expert for WHO/IPCS and Italian expert for genotoxicology at the OECD. In 2020, he received the Fritz Sobels Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Society for Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics. He has published 350 scientific papers cited 20,000 times.
