Dr. Rosario Nicola Brancaccio joined the Cellular and Molecular Oncology Laboratory headed by Prof. Giorgio Stassi in January 2025. He previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship at TIGEM in Pozzuoli. He earned his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Université Claude Bernard – Lyon 1 in 2020, with a thesis focusing on the identification and characterization of novel HPV types.

He specialized in Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Palermo, conducting his research at the IARC in Lyon, and developing next-generation sequencing methods for papillomavirus isolation. His research combines strong wet-lab skills with expertise in ‘omics data analysis, including genomics, transcriptomics, and methylation data.

His postdoctoral experience includes positions at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the Stem Cells-GIGA Research Center in Belgium, and the University of Salerno.