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Interests

  • Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis;
  • Analyisis of human and microbiome small RNAs involved in tumor development and progression
  • Discovery and functional analysis of long noncoding RNA ;
  • Integrative analysis of high-throughput data ;

Research projects

  • Fecal non-coding RNA markers for a precision medicine approach: how they reflect colorectal cancer onset and progression (Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro - FIRC-AIR - 2021);
  • Host-gut microbiome small RNA cross-talk: an innovative source of ongoing biomarkers for an accurate colorectal cancer detection. (Federazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro e Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro - FIRC-AIR - 2019);
  • Validation of clinical biomarkers based on non-coding RNAs and intestinal microbiota for colorectal cancer (Lega Italiana Lotta contro i Tumori - LILT - 2018);
  • Biomarker-box: an economic and efficient computer system for analyzing biological data in real time (Fondazione CRT - 2018);
  • Small noncoding RNA biomarker discovery for Colorectal cancer (Lega Italiana Lotta contro i Tumori - LILT - 2017);
  • Unliganded Estrogen Receptor alpha - regulated long noncoding RNAs as determinants of the luminal phenotype in breast cancers (Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro - AIRC - IG 2014);