Paolo boffetta biography
Boffetta was born in Turin, Italy, went to the Vittorio Alfieri High School in Turin, and studied medicine at the University of Turin and received a Doctor of Medicine degree in , after which he became a resident at the Second Division of Internal Medicine and Research Fellow and Research Assistant at the Cancer..
Paolo Boffetta
Italian epidemiologist
Paolo Boffetta (born July 19, 1958) is an Italian epidemiologist.
Paolo Boffetta (born July 19, ) is an Italian epidemiologist.
He is doing research on cancer and other chronic diseases, where he contributed to the understanding of the role of occupation, environment, alcohol, smoking and nutrition in disease development. In 2013, his candidacy for the position of Director of France's national center for research in epidemiology and public health was withdrawn as a result of his extensive consulting work for industry in lawsuits involving asbestos.[1][2]
Biography
In 1990, Boffetta moved to Lyon, France, to join the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, first as medical officer until 1994 and later as chief of the Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology (1995–2003).
During this time he was also visiting scientist at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, in Washington (1998/99), foreign adjunct professor, at the Departm