Dr Domenico Palli
Role and
contribution
Dr Palli leads the Florence cohort in EPIC
and participates in InterAct through the case ascertainment and verification
workpackages 1.1 and 1.2. He also participates in the sub-phenotyping exercise
(WP1.3), the physical activity workpackage (WP2.6) and in the analysis of data
(WP1.7).
Scientific
profile
Principal Investigator of
EPIC-Florence, the local section of EPIC-ITALY (supported by a long-term grant
from AIRC-Milan to D.Palli, 1992-2005). Coordinator of several nutritional
epidemiology projects in Tuscany. Investigator in the Project EPIC-EURGAST
funded by the EC (2002-2004; D.Palli coordinated a work-package with two
sub-contractors) for the evaluation of dietary, environmental and genetic
determinants of gastric cancer risk in the EPIC cohort (with a nested
case-control study design). -Principal Investigator of a project funded by
Compagnia San Paolo, Turin-Italy (4 years) on "Diet, lifestyle and geno-toxic
damage (endogenous DNA adducts from lipid peroxidation)". Local investigator in the FP6 European
project DiOGenes (2005-2009) focused on the dietary and genetic determinants of
obesity. Local investigator in the FP6
European project EuroFir (2005-2009) focused on food tables. Currently, over
170 scientific papers on peer-reviewed journals are listed in PubMed.