Education
- 1997 MD degree at University of Pavia (cum laude).
- 1997-2002 Residency in Pathology at University of Insubria (degree cum laude)
- 2006 PhD degree in Degenerative pathology and Immunopathology at University of Insubria
Academic background
- 2006-2017 Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Insubria
- 2017-2022 Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Insubria
- 2018-2022 Director of the Residency Program in Pathology, University of Insubria
Academic honors, awards and prices
- 1997 Luigi Casati Award, scientific session, for the MD degree thesis: “Prognostic morphological predictors in nonfunctioning neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas. Analysis of 61 cases”
- 2003 Pietro Lampertico Award of the International Academy of Pathology – Italian Division with the research project: “Morphological and molecular characterization of pulmonary and extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinomas”.
- 2010 Award of “Associazione Amici dell’Università dell’Insubria”, with the research project “Immunohistochemical and molecular profiles of diffusa large B-cell lymphomas of extranodal sites”.
- 2019-2022 Co-chair of the Endocrine Pathology Working Group of the Italian Society of Pathology and Cytology (SIAPEC)
- 2022-present Chair of the Endocrine Pathology Working Group of the European Society of Pathology (ESP)
- Classification and clinicopathological characterization of neuroendocrine neoplasms of typical and atypical sites
- Molecular features of high grade neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Rare histotypes of thyroid tumors
- Cytogenetic and molecular characterization of lymphoproliferative disorders
- Uccella S, Busam KJ, Inzani F, Osamura RY, Papotti M, Rekhtman N, Shia J. Chapter 8.1.2.2: Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. In: WHO Classification of Tumours Editorial Board. WHO classification of tumours series, 5th Edition. Endocrine and neuroendocrine tumours. Lyon, IARC Press, in press 2022
- Uccella S, La Rosa S, Metovic J, Marchiori D, Scoazec JY, Volante M, Mete O, Papotti M. Genomics of High-Grade Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor with High-Grade Features (G3 NET) and Neuroendocrine Carcinomas (NEC) of Various Anatomic Sites. Endocr Pathol. 2021 Mar;32(1):192-210. doi: 10.1007/s12022-020-09660-z. Epub 2021 Jan 12. PMID: 33433884.
- Uccella S, La Rosa S, Scaldaferri D, Monti L, Maragliano R, Sorrenti E, Gariboldi M, Taramelli R, Sessa F, Acquati F. New insights into hypoxia-related mechanisms involved in different microvascular patterns of bronchopulmonary carcinoids and poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas. Role of ribonuclease T2 (RNASET2) and HIF-1α. Hum Pathol. 2018 Sep;79:66-76. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2018.04.028. Epub 2018 May 12. PMID: 29763721.
- Magnoli F, Bernasconi, B, Vivian L., Proserpio I, Pinotti, G, Campiotti L., Mazzucchelli L, Sessa F, Tibiletti, MG, Uccella S. Primary extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphomas: Many sites, many entities? Clinico-pathological, immunohistochemical and cytogenetic study of 106 cases. Cancer Gen. 2018 Dec,228-229:28-40.
- Uccella S, Blank A, Maragliano R, Sessa F, Perren A, La Rosa S. Calcitonin-Producing Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Pancreas: Clinicopathological Study of 25 Cases and Review of the Literature. Endocr Pathol. 2017 Dec;28(4):351-361. doi: 10.1007/s12022-017-9505-4. PMID: 29063495.