{"entity":{"id":"aou-padova","kind":"institution","name":"Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova","aka":["AOPD","Padua University Hospital","Ospedale di Padova","Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova"],"tldr":"Padua's public university hospital, run with the University of Padua. Its units include blood cancer care, children's blood and cancer care, bone tumour surgery and molecular cancer testing, and the Veneto cancer institute gives radiotherapy in a building on its site.","summary":"The Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova is the university hospital trust of Padua in the Veneto regional health service, working with the Università di Padova. Its directory of units (Strutture, Carta dei Servizi) lists, among others, haematology (UOC Ematologia), paediatric onco-haematology (Clinica di Oncoematologia Pediatrica), orthopaedics and orthopaedic oncology, molecular oncology diagnostics (UOSD Diagnostica Molecolare Oncologica), pathology, thoracic surgery, and general surgery units for the upper digestive tract, colorectal disease and hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery with liver transplantation. The Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV), the region's cancer IRCCS, says it delivers radiotherapy in Padua in a radiotherapy building within the area of the hospital trust, and that as the regional hub it coordinates the multidisciplinary oncology groups that operate at the Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova among others.\n\nNewsweek and Statista rank it 119th in World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova","url":"https://www.aopd.veneto.it/"},{"label":"Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 119 (Azienda Ospedale Università Padova, Padua)","url":"https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology"},{"label":"Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova: Strutture, Carta dei Servizi","url":"https://www.aopd.veneto.it/strutture-carta-dei-servizi"},{"label":"Istituto Oncologico Veneto: chi siamo","url":"https://www.ioveneto.it/istituto/chi-siamo/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["iov-veneto"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Padua","country":"IT","lat":45.404,"lng":11.887,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://www.aopd.veneto.it","newsweekOncology2026":119,"programs":["Haematology","Paediatric onco-haematology","Orthopaedic oncology","Molecular oncology diagnostics"]},"route":"/institutions/aou-padova/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"iov-veneto","kind":"institution","name":"Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS","route":"/institutions/iov-veneto/"}],"collection":[{"id":"newsweek-hospitals","kind":"collection","name":"Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology","route":"/collections/newsweek-hospitals/"}]}}