Miguel Bronchud, Veteran Cancer Clinician and Researcher and Co-Founder of Regenerative Medicine Solutions, shared European Institute of Oncology’s post on LinkedIn, adding:
“The European School of Oncology (ESO) was born from Veronesi’s pioneering idea in the 1970s: the need to unite Europe in the fight against cancer.
While the United States concentrated enormous resources on the National Cancer Institute, Veronesi imagined a European response: training a new generation of oncologists with a shared, modern, and deeply human culture.
Thanks to the support of Princess Domietta Del Drago, ESO was founded in 1982 as an independent, non-profit institution. The first residential course on Lake Como introduced an innovative model: teachers and students living together, learning together, and truly sharing knowledge.
Since then, more than 15,000 professionals have taken part in ESO’s programmes. I was amongst the early lucky students first (in Lake Como in the mid 1980s) and later professor and an early collaborator and teacher, including during the construction of the IEO , or European Institute of Oncology. Not an easy project then (in Milan); considering the original idea and great fi...