Sara Lonardi is Chief of the Oncology 3 Unit of Veneto Institute of Oncology (IOV) – IRCCS.

She obtained her Medical Degree in 2000 and her Oncology specialization in 2004, both from the University of Padova.

She is actively interested in the care of gastrointestinal cancer patients since 1998, and in 2013 became chief of the GI Cancer Unit, being involved in several international and national clinical trials as Principal Investigator. She was also Chief of Phase I Clinical Trial Unit at IOV-IRCCS.

She has published more than two hundred scientific articles in peer-reviewed journal dealing with gastrointestinal cancers clinical and translational research.

She is active member of Associazione Italiana di Oncologia Medica-AIOM, European Society of Medical Oncology-ESMO and American Society of Medical Oncology-ASCO, and member of the Steering Committee of the ACCENT DataBase.