Celebrating Excellence: Dr. Alessandro Rizzo, Recipient of the Prestigious ESMO Merit Award 2026

Le nostre eccellenze: Il Dottor. Alessandro Rizzo vincitore del prestigioso ESMO Merit Award 2026

The prestigious award was presented during the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies (TAT) 2026 conference in Paris for an international multicenter study involving 50 centers across 17 countries, focusing on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Dr. Rizzo is considered among the most influential researchers in the world, confirmed for the fourth consecutive year in Stanford University’s 'World’s Top 2% Scientists' list (based on 2025 data); with an H-Index of 62 (Scopus data) and nearly 300 publications, he ranks in the global top 1% for Oncology and Carcinogenesis, specializing primarily in uro-oncology.