Research: Metabolic reprogramming and anticancer therapy: structure-based identification of new inhibitory molecules of the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) enzyme
WORK ADDRESS: Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Viale Regina Elena 291 / Policlinico Umberto I, Viale Regina Elena 324
SUPERVISORS: Prof. Gianluca Canettieri, Prof.ssa Paola Gazzaniga
CAREER:
ongoing: Medical Oncology Residency, Sapienza University of Rome
2023: University High School Diploma - equivalent to II level Master - with honors, Sapienza School for Advanced School (SSAS), Sapienza University of Rome
2022: Degree in Medicine and Surgery, with honors, Sapienza University of Rome
PREVIOUS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Dec 2021-ongoing: Dr. Valentina Magri, Prof. Paola Gazzaniga, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza - internship at
purposes of the SSAS thesis: "Role of liquid biopsy in the search for new predictive prognostic markers in breast cancer"
2020-2022: Prof. Gianluca Canttieri, Prof. Luigi Frati, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza - internship for the purpose of the dissertation degree: "Metabolic reprogramming and anticancer therapy: structure-based identification of new inhibitory molecules of the enzyme
lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and in vitro and in vivo validation"
Nov-Dec 2019: Prof. Jean-Pierre Vartanian, Prof. Simon Wain-Hobson, Molecular Retrovirology Unit, Pasteur Institute/École
Normale Supérieure Paris - SSAS research project: "Interactions between the APOBEC3C protein and the hepatitis B virus"
2019: Prof.ssa Cecilia Battistelli, Prof. Marco Tripodi, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza - SSAS research project
"RNA-based strategies to counter SNAIL-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition"
2018: Prof. Antonio Musarò, Dr. Gabriella Dobrowolny, Department of Anatomical-Histological-Forensic Sciences, Sapienza
- SSAS research project: "Role of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)"
2017: Prof. Marco Tripodi, Prof.ssa Cecilia Battistelli, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza - SSAS research project:
"Role and regulation of Hotair long non-coding RNA expression in colorectal cancer cells"