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Tumor Immunology: we are evaluating with in vitro and in vivo model how the pharmacologicaly inhibition of the SHH pathway in a medulloblastoma cell line, can modulate the recruitment and the effector functions of natural killer cells.My tutor in this project is Dr. Angela Gismondi.I receive a scholarship from the Italian Institute of Technology

Traineeship in Infectious Disease ward of the Pubblic Health and Infection Diseases Dept. Sapienza University, Rome (Italy). There I start the clinical follow-up of HIV patients and HCV patients.The focus of my final dissertation was evaluating the role of dendritic cells sub-populations and monocytes in HCV and HIV infected patients, under the supervision of Dr. Miriam Lichtner