Prof. Francesco DiMeco is director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Fondazione Istituto Neurologico C. Besta and full Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Milan. After completing the residency program, he attended a neurosurgical oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins gaining a considerable experience in the loco-regional treatment of brain tumors. Focusing on neurosurgical oncology, he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and several book chapters and distinguished himself as a co-author of the first worldwide research that lead to the identification of tumor stem cells in glioblastomas and novel treatment strategies by inducing tumor cells differentiation, publishing a pioneering article in Nature and lately in Molecular Cancer. Recently, his research has broadened to embrace the field of intraoperative imaging, becoming one of the world’s leaders on intraoperative ultrasound in neurosurgery. At the same time, he started developing a program on Focused Ultrasound for the experimental treatment of brain tumors.
