Professor Gaetano Romano

Professor Gaetano Romano

Department of Biology, Centre for Biotechnology, Temple University Centre for Biotechnology, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Dr. Gaetano Romano is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. In the course of his academic activities, Professor Romano has been conducting several research projects in the fields of tumor immunology, immunogenic cell death, cancer radiation therapy combined with immune checkpoint inhibitors, drug discovery and development in oncological programs, cancer stem cells, mechanisms leading to chemo- and/or radiation resistance in malignant cells, viral and non-viral vectors development for gene therapy, oncolytic viruses, viral oncology, detection of tumors markers in solid biopsies and in peripheral blood, isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells and/or circulating tumor DNA from the bloodstream and characterization of cell signaling systems in the context of cancer research, neurodegenerative disorders and stem cell biology.

Updated 7 August 2023