ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-2216
Luca Roncati is Associate Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the Department of Life Sciences, Health, and Health Professions at Link University in Rome, and has attained the National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor.
He graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery and specialized with honors in Pathological Analysis and related disciplines (Oncology, Breast Surgery, Clinical Pathology, Forensic Medicine), he subsequently also qualified in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Prof. Roncati is a member of the Governance Board of the European Society of Medicine and is affiliated with prestigious scientific societies, including the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, the International Society of Lymphology, and the Italian Cervical Cancer Screening Group.
Associate Editor of the European Journal of Gynecological Oncology, its sister journal Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, in which he also serves as a designated member of the Award Selection Committee, and Frontiers in Oncology, Prof. Roncati is also on the editorial board of other academic journals. Gynecology, where he also serves as a designated member of the Award Selection Committee, and Frontiers in Oncology, Prof. Roncati is on the editorial board of other high-impact academic journals, including Cancers, Women's Health, Pathogens, and Frontiers in Medicine.
Prof. Roncati is the author of over 280 scientific publications, has participated in various national and international research groups attracting funding, is a reviewer for many indexed journals in the field, including the British Medical Journal (BMJ), has organized numerous conferences of national and international importance, has participated several times as a speaker at conferences and seminars, even abroad, holds the intellectual property rights to an Italian and international patent for cancer treatment, and has been awarded important national and supranational honors. Among the latter, the following stand out: the award received from the American Academy of Dermatology; the award received from the publishing house Taylor & Francis in the form of Top Science Author; the award received from the Department of Health Policies of the Emilia-Romagna Region for research on COVID-19 conducted during the health emergency; and the award received for work carried out as a public service doctor in the municipalities of the province of Modena affected by the 2012 earthquake. He has also obtained the qualification of expert of the National Agency for Regional Health Services in the clinical/organizational/epidemiological/social, research, and international relations areas.
Prof. Roncati is credited with describing the syndrome that bears his name (Roncati-Manenti triad) and T rex lymphoma. In 2023, Times Higher Education, formerly a supplement to the well-known British newspaper The Times, selected him as a high-profile academic representing Italy in the World University Rankings, the most authoritative ranking of the best universities in the world. In 2024, the Mediterranean Life Sciences Union appointed him Ambassador as a renowned expert in the field of gynecological oncology, and the US platform ScholarGPS included him among the top 0.5% of scholars internationally. Also in 2024, he was nominated to join the Scientific Research Honor Society of the United States of America, which boasts over 200 Nobel Prize winners among its members over the years. In 2025, he was awarded the Best Researcher Award for the best scientific research in the field of breast cancer (breast cancer subdomain).
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