Rita T. Lawlor is associate professor in the Department of Engineering for Innovative Medicine and a fellow of Information Privacy from IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals). Rita is originally a Computer Science graduate with a doctorate in translational biomedical sciences in Oncological Pathology. Rita Lawlor is co-founder annd vice director of the ARC-Net applied cancer research centre where she coordinates research activities and runs the cancer biobank.
Rita is a member of the management committee of ICGC-ARGO, the international cancer genome consortium project to accelerate research in genomics oncology and is co-PI for the Italian associated project on Orphan tumors. She is a member of the steering committee of BC-NET (Biobank Cohort Network of Low Middle Income Countries) network of IARC (International Association for Research on Cancer). She is a former director of ISBER, International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (www.isber.org) and currently vice chair of ISBER Science Policy Community of Practice. She is past president of ESBB, the European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (www.esbb.org). She is currently on the board of the Italian Foundation for Pancreas diseases (FIMP).
Her current research interests are in molecular diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets and the role of cancer heterogeneity and molecular characterization of samples in the application of personalized medicine.
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