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Ercole Cavalieri

February 10, 1937 — September 21, 2021

Ercole Cavalieri

February 10, 1937 – September 21, 2021



Ercole Cavalieri was born in Milan, Italy, and earned his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Milan in 1962. He came to the United States in 1968 on a Damon Runyon Fellowship to study chemical carcinogens in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Melvin Calvin at the University of California – Berkeley. Ercole joined the faculty in the Eppley Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1971 and conducted research into cancer initiation and prevention until his retirement in 2017. He was very proud of his trail-blazing research on the initiation of cancer by polycyclic aromatic compounds (found in all kinds of smoke) and estrogens. His research on estrogens included breast, prostate and ovarian cancer. He was the founding director of the intercampus Center for Environmental Health and Toxicology at the University of Nebraska. The end of his career was devoted to research on the prevention of estrogen-induced cancers. He was preceded in death by his parents Clelia and Attilio Cavalieri and his sister Graziana Cavalieri. He is survived by his sister Guiseppina Aslani-Cavalieri, his close cousins Alberto, Graziano and Gabriela Gaioni, and his long-time research collaborator and friend, Elli Rogan; and many other friends.

Mass of Christian Burial Monday, September 27, 2021 at 11:00AM at St Pius X Catholic Church 6905 Blondo St. Visitation Sunday beginning at 5:00PM, followed by a Wake Service at 7:00PM at John A. Gentleman Mortuaries 72nd Street Chapel. Ercole will be buried with his family in Campagnola, Italy.

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Visitation

Sunday, September 26, 2021

5:00 - 7:00 pm (Central time)

John A. Gentleman Mortuaries - 72nd Street Chapel

1010 North 72nd Street, Omaha, NE 68114

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Wake Service

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Starts at 7:00 pm (Central time)

John A. Gentleman Mortuaries - 72nd Street Chapel

1010 North 72nd Street, Omaha, NE 68114

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Mass of Christian Burial

Monday, September 27, 2021

Starts at 11:00 am (Central time)

St. Pius X Catholic Church

6905 Blondo Street, Omaha, NE 68104

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