Head of the Center of Immunology. Research interests: autoimmunity, immunotherapy, tumor biology, tumor immunology, biomaterials with potential applications in regenerative medicine.
Professional experience: implicated as coordinator in 3 national projects and collaborator in 33 national / 5 international programs; author (13) and co-author (17) of several scientific publications indexed by Clarivate Analytics; published scientific book chapters (6); adviser for the achievement of Ph.D. thesis (5) in the field of biology and medicine; member of organizing committees for some scientific events and reviewer for 15 journals.
Technical skills and competences: design and promote research activities; creation of experimental models in the lab; Cell culture; Proliferative and cytotoxicity activities of cells; Phagocytosis, chemotaxis, and respiratory burst (ROS) tests; Immunochemical techniques – ELISA, electrophoresis, immunoblotting; Flow-cytometry methods – Cell surface markers, apoptosis, and cell cycle analysis; Intracellular signal transduction techniques; Western Blot, RT-PCR.
