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Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology - FABIT

Cancer biology

Development and application of cell and molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry and nanotechnology to understand tumorigenesis and tumor progression

Cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease stemming from normal cells acquiring aberrant features, such as hyperproliferation, immunoevasion and deregulated cellular energetics.

The research activities in Cancer Biology employ several approaches to investigate the causes of this aberrant acquisition, using experiments and approaches both computational, genetical and molecular. Further screening of cancer cells is performed using data acquisition of biochemical, metabolic and transcriptional features. This scope aims also at understanding the action of pathogenic organisms (viruses and bacteria) with oncogenic properties and, more in general, focuses on the identification of novel anti-cancer molecular targets and innovational therapeutic strategies.

People

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Giulia Babbi

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Proteomics, Database development, Protein annotation, Gene-Disease relation, Rare diseases, Machine learning, Genomics,
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Monica Baiula

Associate Professor

keywords: Integrin, Drug discovery, Inflammation, Molecular Pharmacology
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Federica Belluti

Associate Professor

keywords: natural products, multititarget drug discovery, design and synthesis of small molecules, antineurodegenetive small

Christian Bergamini

Associate Professor

keywords: Mitochondria, Mitochondrial electron transfer chain, Reactive Oxygen Species, Coenzyme Q10

Roberto Bernardoni

Assistant professor

keywords: Animal models of molecular mechanisms related to the onset and progression of childhood neuroblastoma, autism spectrum

Fabrizio Bertolazzi

PhD Student

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Renato Brandimarti

Assistant professor

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Concettina Cappadone

Assistant professor

keywords: magnesium, biomineralization, cancer, cell cycle, MDR
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Giovanni Capranico

Full Professor

keywords: DNA topoisomerases, R-loop and non-B DNA structures, Non-coding RNAs, Espressione genica, Transcription regulation,
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Emidio Capriotti

Associate Professor

keywords: Analysis and interpretation of cancer genome., Genome interpretation and prediction of disease-related protein
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Giacomo Cavalca

PhD Student

keywords: Data science, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Deep learning, Bioinformatics
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Stefano Luciano Ciurli

Full Professor

keywords: Bioinorganic Chemistry, Biomodelling, Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy, Metallo-chaperons, Urease, X-ray absorption
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Dario De Biase

Associate Professor

keywords: Molecular Pathology, Molecular alterations of solid tumors, Next Generation Sequencing, Tumors
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Giovanna Farruggia

Assistant professor

keywords: fluorescece spectroscopy, flow cytometry, magnesium, fluorescent dye, cell proliferation
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Anna Maria Ghelli

Associate Professor

keywords: mitochondria, Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, apoptosis, complex I, OPA1, Dominant Optic Atrophy, cancer
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Federico Manuel Giorgi

Associate Professor

keywords: Bioinformatics, Transcriptomics, Gene Networks, Plant Biology, Cancer Biology, Genomics, Biostatistics
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Luca Grillini

PhD Student

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Luisa Iommarini

Associate Professor

keywords: mitochondria, cancer, tumor, metabolism, hypoxia, oxidative phosphorylation
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Stefano Iotti

Full Professor

keywords: fluorescent dyes, Magnesium, Biosensors, hydroxyquinoline derivatives, Synchreotron-based x-ray microscopy, magnetic

Emil Malucelli

Associate Professor

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Jessica Marinello

Associate Professor

keywords: Human Topoisomerases, R-loops, Non canonical DNA structures, G-quadruplex, DNA damage
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Luca Mazzei

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

Laura Menotti

Associate Professor

keywords: viral vectors, oncolytic virotherapy, HER2 receptor, tumor-specific receptors, viral retargeting ad detargeting, herpes
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Emanuela Mensà

Research fellow

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Giorgio Milazzo

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology, Neuroblastoma
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Francesco Musiani

Associate Professor

Simona Pepe

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

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Laura Poppi

PhD Student

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Cecilia Prata

Associate Professor

keywords: Nutraceuticals, Signal transduction, NAD(P)H oxidases, Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), Aquaporins, Antioxidants
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Marco Russo

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Bioinformatics, DNA secondary structures, Genome instability, R-loop, G-quadruplex
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Manuela Sollazzo

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: cancer; metabolism; Respiratory Complex I; pro-tumorigenic signaling cascades; Drosophila melanogaster
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Roberto Tonelli

Assistant professor

keywords: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Preclinical Molecular Pharmacology, Oncology
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Maria Paola Turina

Assistant professor

keywords: ATP synthase, proton transport, electron tranfer, photosynthetic Reaction Center
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Suleman Khan Zadran

Research fellow

keywords: Molecular biotechnology of phages- Development of theranostic vectors- Gene expression regulation in cancer- Molecular
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Barbara Zambelli

Associate Professor

keywords: intrinsically disordered proteins, metal-homeostasis, urease, nickel, protein-protein interactions
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Giampaolo Zuccheri

Assistant professor