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I was born in Italy where I did most of my studies. I have always had a strong interest for life sciences and I focused my education toward this field. I earned a Bachelor in Biotechnology and a Master\u2019s in Medical Biotechnologies, both at the University of Siena.<\/p>\n
During my Master\u2019s, I did an internship at the Hematology Unit of \u201cPoliclinico Le Scotte\u201d in Siena where I performed molecular biology analyses for the differential diagnosis and follow-up of patients with hematological malignancies. After my Master\u2019s, I did a traineeship in experimental oncology at the department of \u201cMedical Science, Surgery and Neuroscience\u201d, University of Siena. I looked at Wnt pathways molecules affected by drug treatment in malignant mesothelioma cell lines. These experiences contributed to strengthen my interest for research and to confirm this is what I want to do in my life.<\/p>\n
Currently I\u2019m one of the 15 Early Stage Researcher of the TAPAS EJD-ITN. I am based at CARIM Institute in Maastricht University (Department of Biochemistry) under the supervision of Prof. Johan Heemskerk and Dr Paola Van der Meijden. I will work there for the next two years and over the second year, I will spend four months in Dortmund, where I will complete the secondment at ISAS with the supervision of Prof. Albert Sickman. At the beginning of the last year, I will move to the University of Reading, at the Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR), where I will work with Prof. Jon Gibbins.<\/p>\n
During my PhD, I will investigate the regulatory effects of the vascular endothelium on the receptor signaling strength and hemostasis. To this aim, I will develop a new in-vitro model, consisting of microfluidic chips grown with vascular cells, to perform whole blood perfusion studies on platelets activation. The final idea will be to exploit the new vessel-on-a-chip<\/em> technology to screen the novel biologics and small molecules targeting the main platelet receptors.<\/p>\n Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was born in Italy where I did most of my studies. I have always had a strong interest for life sciences and I focused my education toward this field. I earned a Bachelor in Biotechnology and a Master\u2019s in Medical Biotechnologies, both at the University of Siena. During my Master\u2019s, I did an internship… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-511","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","bones-thumb-600":"","bones-thumb-300":"","promobox":"","ab-block-post-grid-landscape":"","ab-block-post-grid-square":"","post-thumbnail":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":" I was born in Italy where I did most of my studies. I have always had a strong interest for life sciences and I focused my education toward this field. I earned a Bachelor in Biotechnology and a Master\u2019s in Medical Biotechnologies, both at the University of Siena. During my Master\u2019s, I did an internship at the Hematology Unit of \u201cPoliclinico Le Scotte\u201d in Siena where I performed molecular biology analyses for the differential diagnosis and follow-up of patients with hematological malignancies. After my Master\u2019s, I did a traineeship in experimental oncology at the department of \u201cMedical Science, Surgery and…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"lastcs","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/author\/lastcs\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/tapas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}