Daria Capece is Associate Professor at University of L’Aquila.
She graduated in 2006 in Medical Biotechnology and received her PhD in Biotechnology in 2010.
Her Research Interests are:
- Role of NF-kB signalling in cancer progression
- Cancer Metabolism
- Targeting of NF-kB-regulated genes for precision medicine
Simone Di Franco is Assistant Professor (RTDB MED/46) at the University of Palermo.
He graduated in Biotechnology in 2009 and received his PhD in Immunopharmacology in 2014.
His Research Interests are:
- Role of tumor microenvironment in cancer progression
- Role of adipose tissue on cancer stem cells
- Molecular mechanisms underlying cancer progression and therapy resistance phenomena
- Optimization of personalized/combinatorial therapies
Alessandra Fiore is Assistant Professor (RTDA BIO/10) at the University of Verona.
She graduated in Medical Biotechnology in 2013 and received her PhD in Inflammation, Immunity and Cancer in 2017.
Her Research Interests are:
- Molecular mechanisms of cancer drug resistance
- Cellular adaptation during metabolic stress
- Metabolic reprogramming in oncogenic transformation
- Immunometabolism in cancer and inflammation
Joanna Kopecka is Assistant Professor (RTDB BIO/10) at
the University of Turin.
She graduated in Biotechnology in 2008 and received her PhD in Molecular Medicine in 2013.
Her Research Interests are:
- Molecular basis of chemoresistance and monoresistance
- New therapeutic approaches to overcome therapy resistance
- New cancer models
Nicla Lorito is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Florence.
She graduated in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies in 2016 and received her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2021.
Her Research Interests are:
- Metabolic reprogramming in cancer
- Molecular and metabolic mechanisms of therapy resistance
Caterina Mancarella is Health Researcher at IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna.
She graduated in 2011 in Biology and received her PhD in Oncology and Experimental Biology in 2015.
Her Research Interests are:
- Fusion gene-driven sarcomas
- Molecular mechanisms of sensitivity/resistance to targeted therapies
- Role of post transcriptional mechanisms of gene expression in sarcoma progression
- Identification of prognosis biomarkers for patient’s stratification
Silvia Zappavigna is Associate Professor at University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”.
She graduated in Medical Biotechnologies in 2006 and received her PhD in Food and Health: biotechnologies and methodologies applied to digestive physiopathology in 2014.
Her Research Interests are:
- Cancer
- Non-coding RNAs as both therapeutics and diagnostics
- Biomarkers
- Circulating tumor cells; nanotechnology
- drug delivery
Pasquale Zizza is a researcher at the IRCCS – Regina Elena National Cancer Institute of Rome.
He graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Siena in 2005 and received his PhD in life and biomolecular sciences in 2011 at the Open University, London (UK).
His main research interests are:
- Role of G-quadruplex ligands in anticancer therapy
- Study of the tumor-related role of shelterin proteins
- Identification of telomere-unrelated functions of TRF2
- Development of novel therapies for cancer treatment
