MD FRCPC, PhD
Assistant Professor (Associate Member)
BC Cancer – Vancouver
Assistant Professor, Department of Urologic Sciences
Associate Member, Department of Medicine
Dr. Lucia Nappi is a medical oncologist – clinician scientist, MD and PhD.
She is an assistant professor in the department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia and a senior research scientist at the Vancouver Prostate and works as medical oncologist in the GU group at the BC Cancer in Vancouver.
Her main research focus involves the discovery and validation of biomarkers in GU cancers, mainly in prostate and testis cancer patients.
She has got several grants and awards including the Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator award and the Michael Smith Foundation Health Professional Investigator award (2020), the operational CIHR grant in 2021, the R01/R37 NIH grant and the career development award from the US department of defense (2022).
She is the vice-chair of the SWOG Adolescent and Young Adults (AYA) committee and the chair of the international SWOG- S1823 / CCTG GCC.1 clinical trial.