Prof. Valeria Barresi

Prof. Dr. Valeria Barresi has been Associate Professor of Pathological Anatomy (SSD MED/08) at the Department of Diagnostics and Public Health of the University of Verona since October 2018. She previously served as Associate Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Messina (2018) and permanent university researcher at the University of Messina from 2008 to 2018. She earned her PhD in Clinical, Applied Oncology and Translational Research on Tumors. She obtained a national scientific qualification for Full Professor of Pathology in April 2020. She was a fellow at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and the University of Manchester, UK, studying the diagnostic pathology of tumours of the central nervous system. Since October 2022 she has been the Chair of the Italian Neuropathology Group of the Italian Society of Pathological Anatomy and Cytopathology, and in 2023 she participated in drafting the guidelines of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology for "Primitive Cerebral Neoplasms". Her main research interests include molecular classification and prognostic factors in central nervous system tumors and epithelial mesenchymal transition in colorectal cancer.