Dr Raffaele Califano is a Consultant Medical Oncologist based at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester.

Dr Califano has a special interest in thoracic malignancies and clinical cancer research and he is an active member of the Manchester Lung Cancer Group.

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery, summa cum laude, from the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2003 and completed his Specialist Training in Medical Oncology in 2007. From 2008 to 2012, Dr Califano worked as Clinical Research Fellow with the Lung and Melanoma Team at The Christie where he trained in advanced trial design and management. Dr Califano has been an investigator for several phase I-III clinical trials in Lung Cancer and Melanoma, developing a particular interest for molecularly-driven clinical trials in advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Dr Califano serves as Chairman of the Young Oncologists Committee of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) and he is a member of the ESMO Educational Committee Steering Group. He is also a member of British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) and International Association of Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)

Dr Califano is the author of several papers published in indexed peer-reviewed international journals, he acts as peer reviewer for a number of medical journals and he has been an invited speaker to several national and international oncology meetings.