I am the principal investigator of the musculoskeletal tissue engineering lab. at Ri.MED Foundation, a biomedical and biotechnologycenter of excellence in Palermo, Italy. Thanks to the international collaborations of Ri.MED I have been a visiting research scientist at University of Pittsburgh and at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, two of the top research institutions in the US. I initially graduated from Pharmacy School, then continued to complete my PhD in Biotechnology at University of Palermo working on bone tissue engineering and on drug delivery for cancer and Alzheimer's. During my first postdoc at the Italian National Research Council, I developed polymeric drug delivery systems to treat maculopathy. Then I worked for two years as a senior scientist at Merck in Rome, developing an anti-cancer monoclonal antibody currently commercialized in the US as Bavencio. But my passion is academic research, so I joined the University of Bologna as a postdoc working on electrospun drug delivery systems for spinal cord injuries. In Ri.MED I am engineering 3D in vitro models to study the pathogenesis of musculoskeletal disorders and develop new treatment approaches.
Listed skills include Sintesi Di Scaffold Polimerici Biocompatibili Per Ingegneria Tissutale, Uso Di Tecniche Spetrofotometriche, Uso Di Tecniche Cromatografiche, Uso Di Spettrometria Nmr, and 18 others.