Dr. Emanuela Romano is a physician-scientist specializing in oncoimmunology, early-phase clinical trials, melanoma and breast cancers. Since October 2015, she has served as the medical director of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy at Institut Curie, fostering the development of immunotherapies with a strong translational research component. From 2011 to 2015, Romano worked as an attending physician in oncology at the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland, as well as a group leader for the Laboratory of Tumor Immunobiology at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Her research interests lie in the direct interrogation of the human tumor microenvironment by multiple biological and bioinformatics means, with the goal to elucidate immune-protective and immune-escape mechanisms and develop and implement new modalities to use the immune system to treat cancer.