Dr. Rolfo received his medical degree from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina in 1996, and University of Catania, Italy in 2003. He completed his fellowship in Medical Oncology at University of Milan, Italy. He has earned certifications from the European Oncology Board and the Spanish and Belgian Board and spent an internship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
From 2012 to March 2018, Dr. Rolfo was the Director of Phase I – Early Clinical Trials Unit and Director of the Clinical Trials Management Program. In addition senior staff for the Thoracic Oncology Cluster at the Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium. In addition of Professor of the same University.
Dr. Rolfo actively works on drug development and resistance in lung cancer and mesothelioma treatment. His focus of research are liquid biopsies (exosomes and ctDNA) and molecular profiling, he is involved in druggable biomarkers research and immunotherapy in thoracic cancer.
Dr. Rolfo is the Deputy Chair of the Educational Committee of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), President of The International Society of Liquid Biopsy (ISLB), Member of the Scientific Committee of the European School of Oncology (ESO). He served as Membership Committee of European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) . He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) and other societies.
His work has been published in “New England Journal of Medicine,” “Lancet Oncology,” “Nature Nanotechnology,” “Cancer Discovery” “Journal of Thoracic Oncology” “Nature Rev Clin Oncology” among other journals. Read Dr. Rolfo’s publications on PubMed. Speaking engagements include global forums on lung cancer and drug development.