Phone: 051-6366595
E-mail address: laura.mercatali@ior.it
Phone: 051-6366595
E-mail address: laura.mercatali@ior.it
PhD, Biologist
Referent of Simple Unit Models and Innovative Therapies (MATI)
Degree in Biological Science at the University of Bologna, 2001
Italian: mother tongue
English: fluent
Excellent skills in the applications of tools for word processing, database management, graphical systems.
She is interested in the development of innovative preclinical models to study tumor microenvironment, the crosstalk between cancer and stromal cells, and cancer cells and Extracellular matrix of bone metastases and sarcomas. The developed models are used as a platform for drug screening and to study pathway of aggressiveness in order to identify new molecular markers and candidate targets of innovative drugs.