Antonio Rodriguez-Calero, MD

2023 Benjamin Castleman Award

Antonio Rodriguez-Calero started his medical studies at the Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, España that continued at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He then began his residency in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology at the Cantonal Hospital Münsterlingen, Switzerland and completed his residency in 2022 at the Institute for Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Since 2019, he has been a Research Fellow at the lab of Prof. Mark A. Rubin, Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Switzerland. Currently, Antonio is a staff pathologist at the Institute for Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland, where he leads the areas of Uropathology and Nephropathology. At present, he is also enrolled in a molecular pathology fellowship at the same institute.

During his residency, Antonio worked under the mentorship of Prof. Rubin in the development of a Swiss-wide network for tissue collection of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. He led a project on Prostate Cancer Brain Metastases and its molecular definition, which included histopathology, whole exome, transcriptomics, epigenetics, and next-generation sequencing analyses. His current goal focuses on further molecular characterization and application of AI pathology in metastatic prostate cancer. Further, he is involved in national and international collaborations on uropathology with focus on prostate cancer, namely with the University Hospital Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland and the Abate-Shen Lab, Columbia University, New York, among others.

To date, he has published seven peer-reviewed articles (two of which were as first author), received the Poster prize of the German Society of Pathology (2020), and the prestigious Young Investigator Award of the Prostate Cancer Foundation (2020).