Gian Maria Zaccaria, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Gian Maria Zaccaria is junior Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Information Engineering Department of Polytechnic University of Bari (DEI-POLIBA). He obtained a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2007 at the “Università Politecnica delle Marche” and a master’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2010 at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
In 2011 he obtained a second level master’s degree in “E-Business and ICT for Management” from the Polytechnic University of Turin. In 2014, he joined the Doctoral School in Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences of the unified doctorate school of the Polytechnic University of Turin and the University of Turin with the objective to design and implement a data-platform aimed at managing translational clinical trials in onco-hematology. He received his Ph.D. in 2018, after a professional visit to the Centre of Personalized Medicine of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, USA.
His activities continued as a postdoctoral fellow, first at the Hematology Unit of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences of the University of Turin and, later, at the Hematology and Cell Therapy Unit of the IRCCS Istituto Tumori ‘Giovanni Paolo II’ in Bari, Apulia, Italy.
MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
His research activities concern data integration/analysis/science in onco-hematology field. From 2014, main activities were focused on design and development of relational data-platforms managing data retrieved from multicentric, open-labeled, randomized, controlled, phase II-III clinical trials on lymphomas sponsored by the Fondazione Italiana Linfomi (FIL) as well as on multiple myeloma sponsored firstly by the Fondazione Italiana delle Neoplasie del Sangue (Fo.Ne.Sa.) and, later, by the European Myeloma Network (EMN). He contributed to develop novel machine-learning-based prognostic scores in onco-hematology.
Recently, he built-up an automated pipeline based on NLP to accelerate data-collection from “real-life” onco-hematology patients to design novel prognostic studies on clinical and biological determinants (Tumor Micro-Environment) in collaboration with the Hematology and Cell Therapy Unit of the IRCSS Istituto Tumori ‘Giovanni Paolo II’, Bari, Apulia, Italy.
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