PhD and Research Fellows

PhD and Research Fellows

Filomena Amoroso
PhD student

+ 39 081 6132432  filomena.amoroso@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Medicina Traslazionale - Università degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli

Project Title: Gastruloids formation assay for the screening of potential teratogenic drugs

Supervisor: Gabriella Minchiotti

Lucia Argenziano
PhD student

+ 39 081 6132427  argenziano.lucia@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Biomolecolari - Università degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli

Supervisor: Andrea Riccio

Ilaria Aurigemma
PhD student

+390816132 226 ilaria.aurigemma@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche Università Federico II

Project Title: Identifying critical regulatory factors during cardiopharyngeal mesoderm differentiation into endothelial cells.

Supervisor: Gabriella Lania

Silvia Buonaiuto
Postdoctoral fellow

+39081613xxx silvia.buonaiuto@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: DELIVER - Decipher unExpLored genetIc Variation inrEproductive failuRe. 

Supervisor: Vincenza Colonna

Carmela Casale
PhD student, Adr PRIN

+390816132xxx carmela.casale@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: Interfering with NF-kappaB activation in human cancer

Supervisor: Alessandra Pescatore

Simona Cataldi
Junior Postdoc (AIRC funded)

+390816132xxx simona.cataldi@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: Assessing COMET Silencing as new Therapeutic Option in Braf-Mutated Thyroid Carcinomas

Supervisor: Valerio Costa

Francesco Cecere
PhD student

+390816132427  francesco.cecere@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Biomolecolari - Università degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli

Supervisor: Andrea Riccio

Pasqualina Cennamo
PhD student

+390816132358  pasqualina.cennamo@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Biomolecolari - Università degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli

Project Title: Systemic oxidative state and neurodegeneration

Supervisor: Marina Ciullo

Gianluca Damaggio
PhD student

+39081613xxx gianluca.damaggio@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche Università Federico II

Project Title: HD-DittoGraph - a digital human Embryonic Stem Cell platform for Hungtinton’s repeats

Supervisor: Vincenza Colonna

Donatella Delle Cave
Postdoctoral Researcher

 +39 081 61 32 412  donatella.dellecave@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: Unraveling the role of cancer-derived collagen in metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Supervisor: Enza Lonardo

Annalisa Di Domenico
Research fellow

annalisa.didomenico@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: Overcoming cancer therapeutic bottleneck by drug repurposing

Supervisor: Enza Lonardo

Denise Drongitis
Post-doc

+390816132445   denise.drongitis@igb.cnr.it 

@DrongitisD

Project Title: Neuroproteomics in Arx mice models and functional analysis of deregulated molecular pathways

Supervisor: Maria Giuseppina Miano

Giorgio Fortunato
PhD student

+390816132221 giorgio.fortunato@igb.cnr.it

PhD student of the University of Campania L.Vanvitelli and IGB-CNR fellow

Project Title: Development of innovative diagnostic protocols for the prediction, progression and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease

Supervisor: Teresa Esposito

Carlo Giaccari
PhD student

+390816132427  carlo.giaccari@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Biomolecolari - Università degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli

Supervisor: Andrea Riccio

Eduardo Ibello
PhD student

+ 39 081 6132432  eduardo.ibello@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Medicina Traslazionale - Università degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli

Project Title: Development of new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of pancreatic dutal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)

Supervisor: Gabriella Minchiotti

Sara Magliacane Trotta
PhD student

+390816132601 sara.magliacanetrotta@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Biologia - Università Federico II

Project Title: Alu RNA as a potential regulator of human gastrointestinal cancer progression and metastatic dissemination

Supervisor: Sandro De Falco

Caterina Perfetto
PhD student

+390816132xxx caterina.perfetto@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: Studio dell'adattamento metabolico in cellule di carcinoma tiroideo indotte da mutazioni del gene BRAF

Supervisor: Valerio Costa

Giovanna Ponticelli
Research fellow

+ 390816132432 giovanna.ponticelli@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: "Generation and characterization of lung organoids for the study of Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)”

Supervisor: Cristina D'Aniello

Cristina Rodriguez Gutierrez
PhD student

+ 39 081 6132432  cristina.rgutierrez@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Biologia - Università Federico II

Project Title: Unraveling the role of Cripto in macrophage plasticity and EndMT in skeletal muscle regeneration

Supervisor: Gabriella Minchiotti

Sharon Russo
PhD student

+390816132221    sharon.russo@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Biomolecolari - Università degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli

Project Title: Understanding the role of ZNF687 in bone metabolism and the effect of the P937R mutation causative of giant cell tumor degeneration in Paget’s disease of bone.

Supervisor: Fernando Gianfrancesco

Federica Saracino
PhD student

+ 39 081 6132432  federica.saracino@igb.cnr.it

Dottorato di Ricerca in Biologia - Università Federico II

Project Title: New approaches to unlocking phenotypic plasticity in pluripotent and tumor cells.

Supervisor: Gabriella Minchiotti

Ezia Spinosa
PhD student, Vanvitelli University

+39 0816132257 ezia.spinosa@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: To identify molecular markers of silent autoimmunity in severe forms of viral infections

Supervisor: Francesca Fusco

Mariagiovanna Tramontano
PhD student in Traslational Medicine (Unicampania “L.Vanvitelli”)

0816132-259   mariagiovanna.tramontano@igb.cnr.it

Project Title: Development of biomarkers using innovative computational analysis approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes complications

Supervisor: Alfredo Ciccodicola

Lucia Verrillo
Post-doc

+390816132445   lucia.verrillo@igb.cnr.it

@lucia_vrl

Project Title: Identification of new therapeutical compounds for Infantile spams caused by polyalanine elongations in ARX

Supervisor: Maria Giuseppina Miano

Flavia Villani
PhD student

+39081613xxx flavia.villani@igb.cnr.it, fvillan1@uthsc.edu

Project Title: Mouse Pangenomics

Supervisor: Vincenza Colonna