Prof. Dr. Carlo Tacchetti

Carlo Tacchetti is Professor of Anatomy, Coordinator of the San-Raffaele AI Center (S-RACE), Coordinator of the International PhD Course in Molecular Medicine, Vita-Salute University San Raffaele, and Group leader, Cancer Imaging Unit, Experimental Imaging Centre, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan. Education: Medical Degree (1982) cum laude; Specialization in Oncology (1987) cum laude, University Federico II, Naples (IT) Research training abroad (5 years): Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot (IL); NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Md, (USA); EMBL, Heidelberg (D); CNRS, École Normale Superiéure Paris (F). Previous Academic and scientific career in Italy: Genova: Staff scientist - Natl. Inst. Cancer Res (1986-1989); Associate Professor of Anatomy (1991-2000), Full Professor of Anatomy (2000-2017), PI - IFOM-IEO campus (2002/2012), University of Genova. Milan: Full professor of Anatomy, Vita-Salute University San Raffaele (2017-today); Director, Experimental Imaging Centre, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital (2010-2024). Major current research interest: Development of advanced bioimaging approaches, from microscopy to diagnostic imaging, applied to many fields of cancer research. Artificial Intelligence applied to healthcare: he has fostered a pivotal partnership between Microsoft and UniSR that generated an AI platform reaching the clinical stage for the prognostic risk calculation of Covid-19 patients (AI-SCORE), and the development of a multilayered interoperability platform (S-RACE) to capture, classify and use multidimensional data from the hospital data banks to generate ML predictive AI models for different clinical needs.