Adriana Albini (born 1955) is an Italian pathologist and cancer researcher. She developed the concept of angioprevention which can be used to control cancer development. She is a competitive fencer and six of her novels have been published. In 2000 she was the Scientific Director at the Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus in Milan.

Life

Albini was born in

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, Italy, on 2 september 1955. In 1985 she had her doctorate and she was employed in research at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry. She works in Milan at the Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus where she is the Scientific Director. She has developed the concept of Angioprevention. Angiogenesis is the name given to the process of forming

blood vessel The blood vessels are the components of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body. These vessels transport blood cells, nutrients, and oxygen to the tissues of the body. They also take waste and carbon dioxide away ...

s and therefore preventing this process from operating could be used to prevent disease development . Albini and others have showed that several drugs and natural compounds for

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...

chemo-prevention (or

chemoprophylaxis Chemoprevention (also chemoprophylaxis) refers to the administration of a medication for the purpose of preventing disease or infection. Antibiotics, for example, may be administered to patients with disorders of immune system function to preven ...

) actually prevent tumor

formation. Her concept has been furthered through the identification of many other "angiopreventive" compounds.Albini A, Indraccolo S, Noonan DM, Pfeffer U. Functional genomics of endothelial cells treated with anti-angiogenic or angiopreventive drugs.Clin Exp Metastasis. 2010 Aug;27(6):419-39 Albini was the first Italian to serve on the council of the American Association for Cancer Research. In 2014 the Provincial Council of

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awarded her the ''Donne Che Ce L’hanno Fatta'' (Women Who Made It) award. The following year she was given a Special Recognition Award by the European Union Women Inventors and Innovators Network International (EUWIIN). In 2020 Albini was identified as one of the BBC's 100 Women.

Other interests

Albini has written six novels under a pen name. She is also a competitive fencer and in May 2015 she won the silver medal at the 2015 European Veteran Fencing championship in her age class behind Marja-Liisa Someroja of Finland.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Albini, Adriana 1955 births Living people Physicians from Milan Italian pathologists