DAVIDE CAPOZZI

PhD Student

PhD program:: XLI
email: davide.capozzi@uniroma1.it
building: Patologia Generale, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale




supervisor: Prof.ssa Aurelia Rughetti

Research: Identification of predictor profiles of immune wellness in cancer patients. ​

EDUCATION
1/11/2025 - ongoing PhD student in Network Oncology and Precision Medicine Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Cellular Therapies, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
7/22/2022 Master's Degree in Bioinformatics - University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Experimental thesis title: “The genetic signature of meiotic drive” Internship abroad as an Erasmus+ student, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
10/21/2019 Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences - University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Experimental thesis title: “Evaluation of the possible sponge effect of microRNA of mRNA anti-COVID-19 vaccines in humans”

SPECIFIC SKILLS
Genomic data analysis (NGS): QC, pre-processing, alignment, CNV analysis.
Transcriptomic data analysis: QC, alignment, quantification, normalization, differential expression analysis, functional/pathway analysis (GSEA, GO/KEGG enrichment).
scRNAseq data analysis: QC, normalization, dimensional reduction and clustering, annotation, differential expression analysis between populations.
Programming languages: bash, R, Python Versioning and environment: git, github, conda/mamba, docker

AWARDS
Academic Merit Award for Excellent Students for the Master's Degree in Bioinformatics

Research products

11573/1760519 - 2026 - The immunological fitness of NSCLC patients drives the response to anti-PD1-based immunotherapy regardless of age
Tuosto, Lucrezia; Gelibter, Alain; Strigari, Lidia; Asquino, Angela; Siringo, Marco; Pace, Angelica; Valentino, Flavio; Capozzi, Davide; Bianchini, Serena; Bellati, Filippo; Santini, Daniele; Nuti, Marianna; Zizzari, Ilaria Grazia; Rughetti, Aurelia; Napoletano, Chiara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE (London: BioMed Central-Springer London) pp. - - issn: 1479-5876 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

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