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- Professor of Neuromuscular Biology and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell & Developmental Biology
- Div of Biosciences
- Faculty of Life Sciences
I graduated in Medicine and Surgery with honours in 2006 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy). During and after medical school I was a visiting scientist at the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) in the laboratory of Professor Shahragim Tajbakhsh, where I studied asymmetric cell division and stem cell self-renewal. I then continued my studies in the laboratory of Professor Giulio Cossu at San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan, Italy), where I obtained my PhD in 2010. During my PhD I started a collaboration that launched novel research lines in the aforementioned laboratory, resulting in a publication in a field not previously explored by my supervisor: human artificial chromosomes (HACs; Tedesco FS et al., Sci Transl Med 2011; commentary: Tremblay JP and Frederickson RM, Mol Ther 2011). After my PhD I coupled post-doctoral research in muscle regeneration with clinical practice and training between Italy (San Raffaele Hospital, Milan) and UK (UCL and UCL Hospitals). During this period I led a team of one research assistant and two MSc students to consolidate the research projects developed during my PhD. Additionally, I started to work on a another research line not previously explored by my supervisor: pluripotent stem cell-derived myogenesis (Tedesco FS et al., Sci Transl Med 2012; commentary: Vilquin JT, Mol Ther 2012). Moreover, I also became a co-investigator in a first-in-human clinical trial based upon transplantation of donor muscle stem cells for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (EudraCT no. 2001-000176-33).
I joined UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology in January 2012 as a Senior Research Associate, funded by an MRC Translational Stem Cell Grant on which I was Co-Investigator. In August 2013 I was then appointed Principal Research Associate (starting April 2014) and I established my independent research group.
I am currently first supervisor of five PhD students; I have also been supervising several visiting and rotating PhD students. Several MSc students have completed his dissertation project in my group and another one has received a distinction for the MRes project done under my supervision. I am the personal tutor for UCL BSc students in Biomedical Sciences and in 2012 I was part of the UCL Medical School Clinical Shadowing Programme for MBBS students. I am a member of the UCL CBD teaching committee and I co-lead the UCL module CELL0012 "Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine".
01-APR-2014 – 31-MAR-2018 | Principal Research Associate | Cell and Developmental Biology | University College London, United Kingdom |
01-JAN-2012 – 31-MAR-2014 | Senior Research Associate | Cell and Developmental Biology | University College London, United Kingdom |
2018 | Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health | Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health | |
2010 | Doctor of Philosophy | Open University | |
2010 | Dottorato di Ricerca | Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano | |
2007 | Medical Licence | Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza | |
ATQ03 - Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow | |||
2006 | Laurea Specialistica | Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza | |
PGCE. |