Education
June 2013 University of Milan - Official Qualification for Pharmacist profession
2006-2012 University of Milan – Faculty of Pharmacy - Doctor in Pharmacy
2001-2006 Secondary High School “Enrico Fermi”, Cantù (CO)

Research and accademic experience
June 2016 to date Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Science - University of Milan - Post-doc Fellowship
November 2015 – May 2016 Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Science – University of Milan - Scholarship - Grant Telethon GGP13002
November 2012 – October 2015 Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Science – University of Milan - Ph.D. Course XXVIII in Pharmacological Sciences - Project title: “Role of the long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) in cardiometabolic disease”
September 2013 – April 2014 and September – November 2015 William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London (UK) - Visiting Ph.D. student at the laboratory directed by Professor Federica Marelli-Berg

Major achievements
- Award Giovani Ricercatori at “Congresso SISA Lombardia”, Milan 26-27 October 2012 for Oral Presentation
- Award “Giovani Ricercatori” at the 28th “Congresso SISA Nazionale”; Rome, 23-25 November 2014 for Oral Presentation
- Scholarship “Borse di ricerca della SIF” for the project “Role of apolipoprotein E in the polarization of CD4 T naive cells toward effector substes”; September 2015
- Best communication award XIX SIF Seminar for PhD students, Fellows, Post Doc and Specialist Trainees; Rimini 20-22 September 2016, for Oral Presentation
- Young Investigator Fellowship EAS 2016 Innsbruck, May 29- June 01 2016
- Young Investigator Fellowship EAS 2017 Prague, April 23- 26 2017

Project founded
- 2016: Italian Ministry of Health (GR-2013-02355011): Engineered regulatory T cell Adoptive Cell Therapy as a novel tool for the treatment of Cardiovascular diseases

Professional memberships
- Member of European Atherosclerosis Society - EAS (since 2012)
- Member of Società Italiana per lo Studio dell’Aterosclerosi – SISA (since 2012)
- Member of Scandinavian Society Atherosclerosis for Atherosclerosis Research - SSAR (since 2014)
- Member of Società Italiana di Farmacologia – SIF (since 2015)

Collaborations
-2012 to date: Collaboration in general population-based clinical studies (The PLIC Study) at the Center for the Study of Atherosclerosis – Bassini Hospital (Cinisello Balsamo, MI). Clinical research focusing on:
-association of circulating and genetic markers with the prognosis of cardiovascular disease;
-postprandial phase studies
-analysis of risk factors for progression of markers of subclinical atherosclerosis
Study of genotypic and phenotypic traits of dyslipidaemias, with special focus to Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH).
-n 2013 to date: Collaboration with Professor Federica Marelli-Berg, William Harvey Research Institute – Queen Mary University London (UK) for project involving the interplay between sistemic/cellular metabolism and adaptive immune response.
- 2013 to date: Collaboration with Professor Marinos Kallikourdis, Humanitas Research Institute – Rozzano (Mi) on the project “Engineered regulatory T cell Adoptive Cell Therapy as a novel tool for the treatment of Cardiovascular diseases”
- 2013 to date: Collaboration with Dr. Cecilia Garlanda and Professor Barbara Bottazzi, Humanitas Research Institute – Rozzano (Mi) on a project involving the role of the long pentraxin 3 in cardiometabolic diseases
- 2015 to date: Collaboration with Professor Nico Mitro, Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Science – University of Milan on a project studying the role of fatty acid synthesis in immune cell function.
- 2017 to date: Collaboration with Professor Maurizio Crestani, Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Science – University of Milan on a project studying the role of histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) in cardiometabolic disease.