Valentina Guarneri, MD, PhD, is Full Professor of Oncology at the University of Padova, and Director of the Oncology 2 Division at the Istituto Oncologico Veneto. She is Director of the Specialty Programme in Medical Oncology. From 2015 to 2018, she was member of the Research Committee of the Italian Ministry of Health. She completed her fellowship in Oncology in 2003, and she obtained her PhD Degree in Clinical and Experimental Oncology in 2007. In 2005, she completed a research experience at the Department of Breast Medical Oncology, UT. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, where she also was Visiting Assistant Professor in 2009. In 2005, she has been appointed Assistant Professor of Oncology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she also chaired the Breast Unit from 2011 to 2013. She is member of the ESMO Fellowship and Award Committee, and of the Oncology Pro Working Group, and was a long-standing member of the ESMO Young Oncologists Committee (YOC). She is also a founder member of the Women for Oncology Italy initiative (a national spin-off of the ESMO initiative). She is on the editorial review board of several international journals, including The Lancet Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, The Oncologist, and Clinical Breast Cancer. Her research interest is mainly focused on clinical and translational research for breast cancer patients. She has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She has presented more than 300 lectures at national and international conferences.