Biography

I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (magna cum laude) in Information Engineering in 2006 and 2010, respectively, both from University of Perugia. My advisor was Prof. Paolo Valigi.  During my PhD I spent two years (2008 and 2009) as junior specialist  at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) at El Samad Systems Biology Lab. My PhD dissertation was about dynamic modeling, parameter estimation and experiment design in Systems Biology with applications to Oncology.  From 2010 to March 2012, I was postdoctoral researcher at ISARLab of Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, working on dynamic modeling tools and parameters identification for the study of genetic networks. Since April 2012, I am Assistant Professor (RTD A) in the Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy. From 2006, I am the scientific head of the IT research and development at Umbria Population Cancer Registry.

Collaborations

2012–Now: Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, IT, Prof. Paolo Valigi.
2006–Now: Umbria Population Cancer Registry, Regione Umbria, Perugia, IT, Prof Fabrizio Stracci.
2006–Now: Molecular Biology Laboratory and Medical Oncology Division, “S.Maria della Misericordia” Hospital , Perugia, IT, Director Prof. Lucio Crinò.
2016–Now: Institute of Hematology and Center for Hemato-Oncology Research (C.R.E.O.), University of Perugia, Perugia, IT, Prof. Enrico Tiacci.
2013–Now: Center For Applied Proteomics And Molecular Medicine (CAPMM), George Mason University, US, Co-Director Prof Emanuel Petricoin III.
2006–2012: Umbria Oncoloy Netework Institution, Regione Umbria, Perugia, IT, Prof. Maurizio Tonato.
 

Research

My primary research interest is in Systems Biology applied to translation Oncology, i.e. Cancer Systems Biology. I am working in robustness analysis of complex networks and bioinformatics and computational analysis based on omics data.  I am also applying methodologies of computer science for big data analytics in medicine and biology. I am particularly interested in applying statistical models in Public Health.

Systems Biology

Systems Biology uses engineering, computational, and physics approaches combined with biologic and medical inputs in an iterative manner to develop representations of the network of interactions within a cell that regulates cellular behavior.

Cancer Systems Biology

Cancer systems biology represents the application of systems biology approaches to the analysis of how the intracellular networks of normal cells are perturbed during carcinogenesis to develop effective predictive models that can assist scientists and clinicians in the validations of new targeted therapies.

Big data analytics 

Big data analytics is the process of collecting, organizing and analyzing large sets of data to discover patterns and other useful information. My research is mainly focused in OMICS data.

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics combines computer science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to analyze and interpret biological data.  I am using mathematical and statistical techniques to analyze big data obtained from high throughput technologies.

Public Health Control

Public Health system through the development and continuous updating of IT system can quantify the health needs, evaluate the appropriateness of services and optimize the resources of the network.

Cancer surveillance

The cancer registries are structures involved in the collection of multidisciplinary information on cancer patients and the tumors present in a given territory.The cancer registry model based on expert IT systems is a tool for control of neoplastic diseases.

Publications

Recent selected papers. Check also my Google Scholar profile.

  • Oncotarget 2016

  • BMC systems biology 2015

  • British journal of cancer 2014

  • Biotechnology Advances, 2012

  • Annals of oncology, 2009

  • International Journal of Control, 2013

  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A: Systems and Humans, 2012

  • EMBC, 2015

Teaching @ UNIPG

2012 - now: M.sc and B.sc courses - Bioengineering and Medical Informatics, Medical School, (80 hours/years in: Medical and Surgery M.sc. course, Technician in Biological Laboratory B.sc. course, Physiotherapy B.sc. and M.sc. courses).
2012- now: B.sc course - Informatics, Physical education school (16 hours/years).
2012- now: M.sc course - Systems Biology, Department of engineering, (3 hours/years inside the course "œControl and optimization", taught by Prof. Paolo Valigi).
2012- now: M.sc course - Health Information Systems, Residency Program in Public Health, (6 hours/years).

Projects

The most recent projects are:

Contacts

mail: fortunato.bianconi@unipg.it 
Department of Engineering, University of Perugia
06125 Perugia, Via G. Duranti, 93
2 FLOR
Department of experimental Medicine, University of Perugia
06132 Perugia, Piazzale Settimio Gambuli
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