Giorgio Prodi (August 12, 1928 – December 4, 1987) was an Italian medical scientist, oncologist and semiotician.
Prodi was born in Scandiano, Italy in 1928, and studied medicine and chemistry at the University of Bologna.
[2] Together with Thomas Sebeok and Thure von Uexküll, he developed a semiotic approach in biology (biosemiotics) in his works of the 1970s and 1980s.
[6] The Institute of Cancerology in the University of Bologna was renamed the "Giorgio Prodi" Centre of Cancer Research Archived 2008-05-02 at the Wayback Machine in his honour.
The Giorgio Prodi Lecture Hall in the former monastery of San Giovanni in Monte is also named after him.