Professor
Vita-Salute San Raffaele , Italy
Umberto Capitanio (ORCID 0000-0001-9225-1795) is a full staff urologist at San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan and Group Leader of the translational research at the Kidney Cancer Lab in the same institute.
He is Executive Member of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Kidney Cancer Guidelines, Executive Member of the EAU Video Congress Committee, former Editor-in-chief of the UROONCO Kidney cancer EAU Educational Platform and former Chairman of the EAU Young Academic Urologist Kidney Cancer Working Party (EAU YAU).
He has been a research fellow at the Cancer prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit of the University of Montreal, Canada. He published more than 540 papers in peer-reviewed journals (H-index 66, source Scopus). He received many academic prizes, including the John Blandy Award in 2009 and the Italian Crystal Matula in 2020. Over the past 10 years, the scientific activities of Umberto Capitanio were dedicated to the field of kidney cancer, in particular in the settings of Small Renal Masses (SMR), locally advanced and metastatic kidney cancer.
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Friday, November 13, 2026
13:45 - 14:15 CET