Associate Professor
Sapienza University of Rome
Lucia Stefanini (PhD) is Associate Professor of Applied Biology at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and Head of the Thromboinflammation Laboratory in the Immune and Thrombotic Research Division of the Department of Translational and Precision Medicine. Her lab conducts translational research to dissect the crosstalk between platelets and immune cells in inflammatory conditions and infectious disease.
Professor Stefanini conducted her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Pavia, Italy. After completing her PhD, she moved to the United States for her post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. Wolfgang Bergmeier, first at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia (2008-11), and later at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2011-2013). Her postdoctoral research focused on the signaling pathways that regulate platelet activation. Her major interest was to identify the molecules that control the kinetics of platelet integrin activation to understand how these affect the architecture of the growing thrombus under flow shear forces. In 2013 she obtained a joint fellowship from the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis and the European Hematology Association and moved to the United Kingdom to pursue an independent research career within the Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR) at the University of Reading (United Kingdom). In 2016 she received the ‘Rita Levi Montalcini’ funding of the Italian Ministry of Research to recruit Italian scientists from abroad and she joined Sapienza University in Rome.
Saturday, July 9, 2022
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Monday, July 11, 2022
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM