Dr. Giancarlo Marra is an assistant professor and staff urologist at the Molinette Hospital, University of Turin, Italy. He trained in several different countries at renowned institutions, including King’s College Hospital and Guy’s Hospital, London, England, as well as the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, and Tenon Hospital, both in Paris, France.
Dr. Marra’s main expertise are in the field of uro-oncology, with a dedicated focus on prostate cancer, including minimally invasive surgical robotic treatments and focal therapy.
Dr. Marra has published more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and is an active reviewer for the major urological journals. He is member of several national and international research groups including the EAU YAU prostate cancer working group, the EAU-ESU group on imaging, focal therapy and pathology, and the Italian Committee for Good Clinical Practice – prostate cancer guidelines section. Dr. Marra has received several prizes for his research, among the latest are the best EUSP Clinical Scholar Award in 2022, and ‘Best Paper published in the field of robotic surgery’ in European Urology in 2023. Dr. Marra has been a presenter and an invited speaker at national and international congresses in Europe, China, and the US.
Dr. Constance Thibault is a medical oncologist working at the European Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris, France. After medical school and residency at Université de Paris, she specialised in the management of genitourinary malignancies. Her main areas of clinical expertise are bladder, prostate, and kidney cancers.
With regards to research, Dr. Thibault has gained an MSc from Université Paris-Saclay in 2013. She is currently a PhD student conducting translational research projects on bladder and prostate cancers. She is also a renowned trialist involved in many academic and pharmaceutical studies, leading her to join the faculty of the ESMO (European Society of Medical Oncology) Prostate group. In addition, Dr. Thibault is an active member of the GETUG (Groupe d’Etudes des Tumeurs Uro-Génitales) providing guidance for the development of innovative trials in the onco-urology field. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles.
Assoc. Prof. Pawel Rajwa is an assistant professor at the Dept. of Urology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. With an M.D., Ph.D., and habilitation from the same institution, he focuses his research on urologic oncology, in particular prostate cancer.
After completing medical school, Assoc. Prof. Rajwa trained abroad in several prestigious institutions including a long-term research fellowship at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Assoc. Prof. Rajwa has published and co-authored over 180 articles, including first-author papers in European Urology, Nature Reviews Urology, European Urology Oncology and Journal of Urology.
Assoc. Prof. Rajwa is a member of the EAU YAU Prostate Cancer Working Group. He is actively involved in PIONEER Big Data study, and he is a principal investigator of the OLIGOMET registry supported by the EAU Research Foundation.
He is the General Secretary for the Polish Association of Urology Main Scientific Congresses, and Urologic Oncology Section Editor for the Central European Journal of Urology – the journal of the Polish Urological Association.
Assoc. Prof. Rajwa has received several awards – He was the winner of the 1st Research Award 2023 of “POLITICS”, a top-selling Polish weekly-published news magazine in Poland, and he received the Best Fellow Research Award at the Medical University of Vienna.