Date of birth: 01/01/1911

Date of death: 01/01/1984

BIOGRAPHY

Aurelio Di Marco (1911-1984), after obtaining his degree in Medicine worked in Farmitalia, where he became director of the Farmitalia Research Laboratories for Microbiology and Chemotherapy. He supervised all the programs up to 1964, when he officially became the director of the Division of Experimental Oncology B, at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan, a position he held until 1979, maintaining his collaboration with Farmitalia up to his death in 1984. He was the leader of the group who discovered daunomycin.