Adriana Albini

Albini was born in Venice, Italy, on 2 September 1955.^[1]

In 1985 she had her doctorate and she was employed in research at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry.^[2]

She works in Milan at the Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus where she is the Scientific Director. She has developed the concept of Angioprevention.^[3] Angiogenesis is the name given to the process of forming blood vessels and therefore preventing this process from operating could be used to prevent disease development .^[4] Albini and others have shown that several drugs and natural compounds for cancer chemo-prevention (or chemoprophylaxis) actually prevent tumor blood vessel formation.^[5] Her concept has been furthered through the identification of many other "angiopreventive" compounds.^[3]

Albini was the first Italian to serve on the council of the American Association for Cancer Research.^[6] In 2014 the Provincial Council of Brescia awarded her the ''Donne Che Ce L’hanno Fatta'' (Women Who Made It) award. The following year she was given a Special Recognition Award by the European Union Women Inventors and Innovators Network International (EUWIIN). In 2020 Albini was identified as one of the BBC's 100 Women.^[6]

Albini has written six novels under a pen name. She is also a competitive fencer^[1] and in May 2015 she won the silver medal at the 2015 European Veteran Fencing championship in her age class behind Marja-Liisa Someroja of Finland.^[7]