Research Groups
Principal investigators of research groups are the beating heart of our School: top researchers from partner research centers and universities who mentor our students and power our programs by actively contributing to the educational program through courses, lectures, and seminars.
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| Name | Research center | City | Research field | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abrignani Sergio | INGM | Milan | Tissue infiltrating T lymphocytes in health and disease | More info |
| Albanese Manuel | INGM | Milan | Gene editing-based technologies and therapies in cancer and infectious diseases | More info |
| Alcalay Myriam | IEO | Milan | Functional Genomics | More info |
| Amati Bruno | IEO | Milan | Oncogenes, Transcription and Cancer | More info |
| Auricchio Alberto | TIGEM | Naples | AVV therapy | More info |
| Bachi Angela | IFOM | Milan | Functional proteomics | More info |
| Ballabio Andrea | TIGEM | Naples | Lysosomal signaling in human diseases | More info |
| Banfi Sandro | TIGEM | Naples | Eye disease genetics | More info |
| Bardelli Alberto | IFOM | Milan | Genomics of Cancer and Targeted Therapies | More info |
| Berni Canani Roberto | CEINGE | Naples | Immunonutrition: innovative strategies against food-induced diseases and obesity | More info |
| Bienko Magda | HT | Milan | Rewiring the human karyotype to reveal principles governing 3D genome architecture | More info |
| Biffo Stefano | INGM | Milan | Translational control of gene expression in normal human cells and in pathological conditions | More info |
| Bodega Beatrice | INGM | Milan | Human Genome Biology in health and disease | More info |
| Bonaldi Tiziana | IEO | Milan | Nuclear Proteomics to Study Gene Expression Regulation in Cancer | More info |
| Branzei Dana | IFOM | Milan | DNA repair | More info |
| Brunetti Pierri Nicola | TIGEM | Naples | Inborn Errors of Metabolism | More info |
| Buffa Francesca | IFOM | Milan | Artificial Intelligence & Systems Biology | More info |
| Cacchiarelli Davide | TIGEM | Naples | Integrative Genomics | More info |
| Calviello Lorenzo | HT | Milan | Post-transcriptional gene regulation | More info |
| Capasso Mario | CEINGE | Naples | Translational Genomics of Neuroblastoma | More info |
| Carninci Piero | HT | Milan | Regulation of chromatin activity by interactome with non-coding RNA classes | More info |
| Casanal Ana | HT | Milan | Molecular Mechanisms of mRNA Modifying Machines | More info |
| Casola Stefano | IFOM | Milan | Genetics of B Cells and Lymphomas | More info |
| Castaldo Giuseppe | CEINGE | Naples | Cystic Fibrosis: from molecular diagnosis to clinical application | More info |
| Cavallaro Ugo | IEO | Milan | Gynecological oncology research | More info |
| Cereda Matteo | IFOM | Milan | RNA regulatory networks in translation oncology | More info |
| Chiariotti Lorenzo | CEINGE | Naples | Epigenetics and Epigenomics applied to human genetics and in molecular oncology of neurodevelopmental diseases and cancer | More info |
| Chiocca Susanna | IEO | Milan | Viruses and cancer | More info |
| Ciliberto Andrea | IFOM | Milan | Quantitative Biology of Cell Division | More info |
| Cortese Mirko | TIGEM | Naples | Molecular determinants of viral phatogenesis | More info |
| Coscia Francesca | HT | Milan | Structural and functional characterisation of thyroid proteins involved in cancer, autoimmunity and hormone synthesis defects | More info |
| Cosentino Lagomarsino Marco | IFOM | Milan | Statistical physics of cells and genomes | More info |
| Costanzo Vincenzo | IFOM | Milan | DNA Metabolism | More info |
| Curigliano Giuseppe | IEO clinica | Milan | New drugs and innovative therapies | More info |
| d'Adda di Fagagna Fabrizio | IFOM | Milan | DNA Damage Response and Cellular Senescence | More info |
| D'Argenio Valeria | CEINGE | Naples | Molecular basis of human diseases | More info |
| Davila Velderrain Jose | HT | Milan | Deciphering patterns of genetic convergence disrupting human brain development via integrative single-cell multi-omics | More info |
| De Francesco Raffaele | INGM | Milan | Novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment and cure of viral infections | More info |
| De Lorenzo Claudia | CEINGE | Naples | Novel Human Antibodies: selection, engineering and therapeutic applications | More info |
| De Maria Ruggero | Unicatt | Rome | Stem cells and cancer | More info |
| De Matteis Antonella | TIGEM | Naples | Membrane Trafficking | More info |
| Demichelis Francesca | UNITN | Trento | More info | |
| Derenzini Enrico | IEO | Milan | Translational Hematology | More info |
| Di Bernardo Diego | TIGEM | Naples | Systems and synthetic biology | More info |
| Di Fiore Pier Paolo | IEO | Milan | Endocytosis, Signalling and Cancer | More info |
| Di Malta Chiara | TIGEM | Naples | Lysosomal signaling and metabolism | More info |
| Di Mitri Diletta | Humanitas University | Milan | Tumor microenvironment | More info |
| Doksani Ylli | IFOM | Milan | Replication Stress Response | More info |
| Domenici Enrico | UNITN | Trento | More info | |
| Dominguez Conde Cecilia | HT | Milan | Dissecting immune developmental trajectories with single-cell genomics | More info |
| Erdmann Philipp | HT | Milan | Modelling bacterial and viral infections in organoids using cryo-electron tomography | More info |
| Ferrari Francesco | IFOM | Milan | Computational Genomics | More info |
| Foiani Marco | IFOM | Milan | Genome Integrity | More info |
| Fraldi Alessandro | Ceinge | Naples | Neurodegenerative mechanisms and therapy of lysosomal diseases | More info |
| Franco Brunella | TIGEM | Naples | Cilia dysfunction and rare diseases | More info |
| Galietta Luis Gino | TIGEM | Naples | Pathophysiology of membrane channels and transporters | More info |
| Gambardella Gennaro | TIGEM | Naples | Computational biology for precision medicine | More info |
| Gandini Sara | IEO | Milan | Molecular and Pharmaco-Epidemiology | More info |
| Gauthier Nils | IFOM | Milan | Mechano-Oncology | More info |
| Geginat Jens | INGM | Milan | Regulatory and helper T-cell subsets in health and disease | More info |
| Giustacchini Alice | HT | Milan | Deciphering the paediatric Leukaemia stem cells – Immune crosstalk: from mechanisms to therapy | More info |
| Glastonbury Craig | HT | Milan | Understanding the genetics of complex disease by computational phenotyping using machine learning | More info |
| Grieco Domenico | CEINGE | Naples | Unveiling new layers of regulation for mitotic progression and their relevance in cancer | More info |
| Grumati Paolo | TIGEM | Naples | Molecular mechanisms of autophagy | More info |
| Harschnitz Oliver | HT | Milan | Viral and autoimmune diseases in human nervous system | More info |
| Indrieri Alessia | TIGEM | Naples | Mitochondrial medicine | More info |
| Iolascon Achille | CEINGE | Naples | Medical genetics and genomics of human diseases | More info |
| Iorio Francesco | HT | Milan | Cancer pharmacogenomics and therapeutic target discovery | More info |
| Jereczek Barbara | IEO clinica | Milan | Radiotherapy | More info |
| Jug Florian | HT | Milan | Quantitative bioimage computation | More info |
| Kalebic Nereo | HT | Milan | Neocortex development and pathogenesis | More info |
| Kovatcheva Marta | IFOM | Milan | Cell Plasticity & Aging | More info |
| Lanfrancone Luisa | IEO | Milan | Modeling and Targeting Metastatic Cancer | More info |
| Lanzuolo Chiara | INGM | Milan | Role of nuclear architecture in cell identity | More info |
| Legnini Ivano | HT | Milan | Gene regulation and RNA metabolism | More info |
| Leuzzi Giuseppe | IFOM | Milan | Functional genomics for cancer immunity | More info |
| Manfrini Nicola | INGM | Milan | Identification, characterization and targetability of novel cancer-associated genes and pathways | More info |
| Manganaro Lara | INGM | Milan | Interplay between HIV and CD4 T cell subsets | More info |
| Mapelli Marina | IEO | Milan | Molecular Basis of Self-Renewal in Cancer | More info |
| Marra Antonio | IEO | Milan | New drugs and innovative theraphies | More info |
| Marsoni Silvia | IFOM | Milan | Precision Oncology | More info |
| Mazzarella Luca | IEO | Milan | Translational oncology | More info |
| Medina Diego | TIGEM | Naples | Cell biology of the lysosomal and autophagic pathways | More info |
| Minucci Saverio | IEO | Milan | Chromatin Alterations in Tumorigenesis | More info |
| Missero Caterina | CEINGE | Naples | Molecular mechanisms underlying hereditary and acquired skin pathologies | More info |
| Mitro Nico | IEO | Milan | Biochemistry of Metabolism | More info |
| Napolitano Gennaro | TIGEM | Naples | Nutrient Signaling and Metabolic Diseases | More info |
| Natoli Gioacchino | IEO | Milan | Transcriptional Control in Inflammation and Cancer | More info |
| Nezi Luigi | IEO | Milan | Microbiome and Antitumor Immunity | More info |
| Nicassio Francesco | IIT | Milan | Noncoding Genome in Disease and Development | More info |
| Nicosia Alfredo | CEINGE | Naples | Development of genetic vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer | More info |
| Nigro Vincenzo | TIGEM | Naples | Undiagnosed diseases | More info |
| Pagani Massimiliano | IFOM | Milan | Molecular Oncology and Immunology | More info |
| Parenti Giancarlo | TIGEM | Naples | Innovative therapies for Lysosomal diseases | More info |
| Pasini Diego | IEO | Milan | Epigenetic Mechanisms in Cancer | More info |
| Pastore Lucio | CEINGE | Naples | Gene and cell therapy for inherited and acquired genetic diseases | More info |
| Pece Salvatore | IEO | Milan | Hormone-Related Cancers and Stem Cell Pathobiology | More info |
| Pelicci Giuliana | IEO | Milan | Biology of Glioblastomas and Brain Metastases | More info |
| Pelicci Pier Giuseppe | IEO | Milan | Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer and Aging | More info |
| Pelizzola Mattia | IIT | Milan | Epigenomics and transcriptional regulation | More info |
| Pesole Graziano | UNIBA | Bari | Bioinformatics, Comparative Genomics, High-throughput sequencing data and Integrative omics | More info |
| Piccolo Pasquale | TIGEM | Naples | Liver-directed gene therapy | More info |
| Pigino Gaia | HT | Milan | Structural and functional studies of cilia and interflagellar transport by 3D cryo-EM | More info |
| Pinheiro Fernanda | HT | Milan | Predicting antibiotic resistance evolution | More info |
| Polishchuk Roman | TIGEM | Naples | Membrane sorting and biogenesis | More info |
| Polo Simona | IFOM | Milan | Ubiquitin and Signal Transduction | More info |
| Pravettoni Gabriella | IEO psicooncologia | Milan | Psyco-oncology | More info |
| Ruoppolo Margherita | CEINGE | Naples | Dissecting molecular mechanisms of inborn errors of metabolism | More info |
| Salvatore Francesco | CEINGE | Naples | Predictive genomic Medicine and physiopathological aspects of neoplastic and multifactorial diseases | More info |
| Santaguida Stefano | IEO | Milan | Genome Integrity | More info |
| Scaffidi Paola | IEO | Milan | Cancer Epigenetics | More info |
| Scarpa Edoardo | INGM | Milan | Infection Dynamics | More info |
| Schaefer Martin | IEO | Milan | Computational Cancer Biology | More info |
| Scita Giorgio | IFOM | Milan | Mechanisms of Tumor Cell Migration | More info |
| Segata Nicola | IEO/UNITN | Milan/Trento | Computational Metagenomics | More info |
| Settembre Carmine | TIGEM | Naples | Organelle homeostasis | More info |
| Sigismund Sara | IEO | Milan | Organelle Communication, Trafficking and Cancer | More info |
| Soranzo Nicole | HT | Milan | Cardiometabolic risk in an Italian population | More info |
| Soskic Blagoje | HT | Milan | Molecular and genetic control of T cell - B cell interaction and antibody production | More info |
| Sottoriva Andrea | HT | Milan | Computational Methods for Single-Cell Cancer Evolution | More info |
| Staiano Leopoldo | TIGEM | Naples | Molecular mechanisms of inherited kidney diseases | More info |
| Stefano Guido | CEINGE | Naples | Bioengineering at the micro-scale | More info |
| Taverna Elena | HT | Milan | Studying the role of intracellular traffic in brain development using cell biology and robotics | More info |
| Testa Giuseppe | IEO/HT | Milan | Stem Cell and Organoid Epigenetics / Molecular basis of human neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases | More info |
| Trapani Ivana | TIGEM | Naples | Gene therapy for retinal diseases | More info |
| Tripodo Claudio | IFOM | Milan | Advanced Pathology Laboratory | More info |
| Usiello Alessandro | CEINGE | Naples | Potential involvement of the amino acid D-aspartate in developmental processes mediated by NMDA receptors and relevant to schizophrenia | More info |
| Vannini Alessandro | HT | Milan | Integrative structural biology of the genome | More info |
| Vernieri Claudio | IFOM | Milan | Metabolic Reprogramming in Solid Tumors | More info |
| Visintin Rosella | IEO | Milan | Chromosome Segregation | More info |
| Vitale Ilio | IIGM | Turin | Genomic Instability and Tumor Immunity | More info |
| Zambrano Nicola | CEINGE | Naples | Improving screening procedures and production of biological therapeutics for preclinical uses | More info |
| Zerial Marino | HT | Milan | Endocytosis and trafficking, membranes and organelles, cell polarity, liver morphogenesis and physiology, targeted drug delivery | More info |
| Zhan Yinxiu | IEO | Milan | Data Science | More info |
| Zippo Alessio | UNITN | Trento | Chromatin Biology & Epigenetics | More info |
| Zitti Beatrice | IFOM | Milan | Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy | More info |
| Zollo Massimo | CEINGE | Naples | Neuroscience and pediatric neuro-oncology | More info |