Biography
Stella D’Oronzo, graduated with honors as a Medical Doctor in 2011 at the University of Bari (Italy), gaining the national certification to the Medical Practice in 2012.
At the same University, Dr. D'Oronzo completed her post-graduate residency program in Medical Oncology in 2017 and earned a Ph.D. degree in "Biomolecular, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Sciences".
During her Ph.D., Dr. D'Oronzo spent about two years at the University of Sheffield (UK) as a Visiting Research Fellow in the "Department of Oncology and Metabolism".
In 2018 she gained the "Cancer and Bone Society Young Investigator Award" for her research focused on osteotropic malignancies, and particularly on mechanisms of breast cancer homing towards the bone, identification of predictive/prognostic biomarkers, and investigation of cancer-treatment related complications.
Since 2019 Dr. D'Oronzo is an Assistant Professor in Medical Oncology at the University of Bari, and since November 2020 she is a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Bone metastases, breast cancer, cancer treatment-induced bone loss, iatrogenic infertility, gynecological malignancies.