Universita Degli Studi Di Torino

The University of Turin (UNITO) is a public university in the city of Turin and ranked in the top-5 Italian universities. UNITO has approximately 79,000 students, 3,800 employees, and 1,800 post-graduate and post-doctoral research fellows. The long record of participation of UNITO in the EU strategic research agenda results from 115 FP7 funded research projects, among which 33 UNITO-coordinated projects, 4 ERC grants as host institution and 4 Research Infrastructure projects. UNITO longstanding tradition of biomedical and clinical research sees the development of clinical activities in the two University Research Hospitals “Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino” (the third public hospital in Europe by size) and “San Luigi Gonzaga”. The School of Medicine of UNITO represents the core of these activities in Torino. It is constituted by seven departments, which were hosting 448 professors/researchers, 159 postdoctoral fellows, 400 PhD students, 1264 MD residents and 384 administrative/technical staff.

The Cardiology Division acts as a regional referral center for advanced cardiac diseases, including arrhythmias. The division has 40 beds, 17 intensive care locations and 4 operating rooms (2 for electrophysiology). The Electrophysiology lab performs around 400 procedures per year and has significant experience in treating advanced cardiac arrhythmias.

The Radiotherapy Division is the Italian referral center for the treatment of various diseases. The department is offering SBRT (SABR) since 2003 and treat approximately 600 patients annually. The department has been involved in many international retrospective and prospective studies on SBRT (in combination with systematic agents) for early stage lung cancer and oligometastatic diseases. Furthermore the Radiation Oncology Division has developed cardio-oncological skills through the design of conduction of projects on this topic.