Giorgio Tettamanti

Giorgio Tettamanti

Senior Research Specialist | Docent
Telephone: +46852488811
Visiting address: Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J10:20, Visionsgatan 4, 17164 Solna
Postal address: K1 Molekylär medicin och kirurgi, K1 MMK Sällsynta diagnoser, 171 76 Stockholm

About me

  • I am senior research specialist and docent in epidemiology at Karolinska
    Institutet, I have a background in biostatistics, and my research is mainly
    focused on childhood cancer and rare genetic syndromes.
    2022, Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Docent), Karolinska Institutet
    2013, PhD in Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet
    2008, MSc in Biostatistics, University of Milano–Bicocca, Italy
    2006, BSc in Statistics, University of Milano–Bicocca, Italy

Research

  • I am the principal investigator of two Nordic collaborative studies on the
    role of parental socioeconomic factors on childhood cancer incidence and
    survival. I am also the principal investigator of a Nordic study on the
    impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on childhood cancer and I am a member of the
    Childhood Cancer & Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC,
    https://www.clic.ngo/ [1]).
    I am working on studies on cancer risk among individuals with rare genetic
    syndromes and I am part of the COSMOS study, an international cohort study on
    the effects of mobile phone use on health (https://thecosmosproject.org/ [2])
    [1] https://www.clic.ngo/
    [2] https://thecosmosproject.org/

Teaching

  • Course leader of the doctoral course “Epidemiology I: an introduction to
    epidemiology”
    Course coordinator of the master course “Epidemiological Methods for
    Studying Determinants of Health”

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Grants

  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2023 - 31 December 2025
    This proposal aims to utilize the pandemic as a “natural experiment”, by studying childhood cancer incidence before, during and after the pandemic in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. The pandemic has provided a unique opportunity to test the hypothesis of an infectious disease etiology for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, enhanced by the different pandemic strategies in the Nordic countries. We also aim to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on childhood cancer patients, both regarding susceptibility to COVID-19 in long-term childhood cancer survivors, and, for those diagnosed with childhood cancer during the pandemic, whether the path through primary care to cancer diagnosis and short-term survival has changed compared to the period prior to the pandemic. An important aspect of this project is that we will study if the social inequalities in number of contacts with healthcare and childhood cancer survival have worsened during the pandemic.We will utilize the unique infrastructure for register-based research in the Nordic countries: for incidence trends and health care pattern around the pandemic, new data will be collected from national health data registers and regional primary care. For COVID-19 risk in long-term survivors the unique Nordic cohort of childhood cancer survivors, SALiCCS, will be utilized, including 20 000 survivors, their siblings, and population controls.The project will provide new knowledge on childhood cancer etiology and childhood cancer late effects.
  • Barncancerfonden
    1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021
  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 January 2020 - 31 December 2022

Employments

  • Senior Research Specialist, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-
  • Senior Research Specialist, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2027

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2022
  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2013

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