Gabriele, a young Italian cancer researcher in Australia

This week’s guest of "Australia for dummies", our segment on the new Italian immigration to Australia, is Gabriele De Rubis.

Gabriele De Rubis Source: courtesy of Gabriele De Rubis

Gabriele is 28 years old, comes from the province of Rome and is a PhD researcher at the University of Technology - Sydney (UTS).

He specializes in cancer research, in particular the prevention of multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting mainly elderly people.

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