Lucia Nappi

Dr. Lucia Nappi is a 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 Centre. She also works as medical oncologist in the Genitourinary Cancer (GU) group at BC Cancer. Her main research focus involves the discovery and validation of biomarkers in GU cancers, mainly in prostate and testis cancer patients.

Dr. Nappi has received several grants and awards including the Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award and Michael Smith Foundation Health Professional Investigator award in 2020, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grant in 2021, and the R01/R37 National Institutes of Health Grant and Career Development Award from the US Department of Defense in 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.