Based in Milan, Prof. Colombo is the Director of the Gynaecologic Oncology Program at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan (IEO). She has served as the Chair of the Division of Medical Gynaecologic Oncology and Director of the Ovarian Cancer Centre of the IEO since 2014.
Prof. Colombo has participated as principal investigator and coordinator of Italian centres for several international clinical trials. She has authored ≥400 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has served on the Editorial Boards of several, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Oncology, and the International Journal of Gynaecological Oncology, the latter as Senior Editor. She was the Chair of the ESMO–ESGO–ESTRO Consensus Conference in endometrial cancer in 2015, and of the ESGO Consensus Conference in ovarian cancer in 2018. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the SGO, ASCO and IGCS. In addition, Prof. Colombo previously held the positions of President of the ESGO and chair of ENGOT. In 2020, Prof. Colombo received the IGCS Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2023 the ESGO Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her work in gynaecological oncology. In 2025 she received the International Charitè-Mayo award for outstanding engagement in woman Cancer.