Education & Training |
2005: B.S. in Biomolecular Biotechnologies, University of Bologna, Italy
2011-2016: Postdoc, UCLA, Los Angeles, US (PI: David Eisenberg) |
Honors & Awards |
2005: Bachelor Degree, cum Laude honors
2006: UNIBO Fellowship for Research Training in a Foreign Country 2006: IAESTE – DAAD fellowship 2007: Master Degree, cum Laude honors 2010: Chip Miller Memorial Junior Research Travel Award 2014: AACR-Millennium Fellowship in Prostate Cancer Research 2015: DGSOM Travel Childcare Award 2015: AACR-Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research Scholar-In-Training Award 2015: Hirshberg Foundation Seed Award 2017: Elife Ambassador 2018: Lynda’s Fund Pilot Study Award 2018: Scialog Fellow 2019: ISSNAF / AR-TER Visiting Junior Scientist |
Upcoming Talks & Conferences |
2021: 6th YPIs Conference on “Genes, Cell Biology, Cancer and Beyond” (18-22th October), Crete (Greece) – Invited Speaker
2022: SLAS2022 International Conference and Exhibition (5th-9th February), Boston (MA) – Session Chair & Invited Speaker |
Selected Recent Talks |
2012: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Mechanisms and Models of Cancer - Selected Speaker
2014: 13th International Summer School: Inflammation, Immunomodulation, Inspiration - Invited Speaker 2015: AACR Special Conference on Advances in Ovarian Cancer Research: Exploiting Vulnerabilities - Selected Speaker 2017: NTAP Cutaneous Neurofibroma Investigator Meeting, Baltimore (MD) - Invited Speaker 2018: CCMT Seminar UPenn / CHOP, Philadelphia (PA) - Invited Speaker 2018: NF Surgical Meeting, Santa Monica (CA) - Invited Speaker 2018: Joint Global Neurofibromatosis Conference, Paris (France), November 2-6 - Invited Speaker 2018: Annual ASCB-EMBO Meeting, San Diego (CA), December 8-12 - Selected Speaker 2019: CSUDH Biology Department Series, Carson (CA), March 14 - Invited Speaker 2019: First Functional Precision Summit, Atlanta (GA), March 30 - Invited Speaker 2019: 9th Global Health Conference: Innovative research, Global Solutions, Miami (FL), May 8 - Invited Speaker 2019: University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy), June 7 - Invited Speaker 2019: Symposium on High-Throughput Screening Technologies at UPenn, Philadelphia (PA), June 27 - Keynote Speaker 2019: Alex Lemonade Stand Foundation Innovation Summit, Philadelphia (PA), 24-27th September - Invited Speaker 2019: Pathology Research Lecture Series (PRLS), University of California San Diego, San Diego (CA), December 9 – Invited Speaker 2020: Inaugural Precision Health Summit, UCLA (6th February), Los Angeles (CA) – Invited Speaker 2020: Research Seminar, CHLA (12th February), Los Angeles (CA) – Invited Speaker 2020: 27th International Molecular Med Tri-Con, Precision Medicine Track (1-4th March), San Francisco (CA) – Invited Speaker 2020: ALSF Virtual Childhood Cancer Lecture (8th May) – Invited Speaker 2020: UCLA & OIC Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds (2nd September), Los Angeles (CA), Virtual Meeting - Invited Speaker 2020: PREDiCT 3D Tissue Models Summit (1st October), Virtual Meeting - Invited Speaker 2020: Tumor Biology Guest Speaker Serie, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami (10th December), Miami (FL), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker 2020: Seminar, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto (17th December), Toronto (Canada), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker 2021: Research Seminar Series, Department of Pediatrics, MD Anderson Cancer Center (12th January), Houston (TX), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker 2021: Tisch Cancer Institute Translational Oncology Seminar Series, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (15th January), New York (NY), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker 2021: Musculoskeletal Research in Progress Seminar series, Michigan Integrative Musculoskeletal Health Core Center (MiMHC), University of Michigan (17th March), Ann Arbor (MI), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker 2021: Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Seminar, UCLA (15th April), Los Angeles (CA), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker 2021: SBP Cancer Center Seminar Series, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (10th May), San Diego (CA), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker 2021: UTH PRISM Series (25th May), San Antonio (TX), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker 2021: 2021 AACR Virtual Special Conference on Sarcomas (28th June), Virtual Seminar - Invited Speaker |