Paola graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan and subsequently moved to the Sanford-Burnham Institute in La Jolla, California where she worked on differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.

In 2008 she completed her PhD at the EPFL in Lausanne with a work demonstrating the plasticity and stemness of thymic epithelial cells.

In 2010, she obtained an EMBO Long Term Fellowship and moved to the Diabetes Research Centre in Brussels to work on pancreas regeneration. In 2011 Paola was awarded the Young Investigator Award in Innovative Therapy for Diabetes (EFSD/JDRF/Roche) and during her period in Brussels she contributed to several publications focusing on potency of expandable pancreatic progenitors and plasticity of adult cells. 

In 2013 Paola was awarded a UCL Rosetrees Excellence Fellowship to pursue her interest in epithelial stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at UCL.

In 2015 she obtained a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her project on thymus biology and in 2017 she joined the Francis Crick Institute as a group leader.

Qualifications and history

2001
University of Milan, Italy
MD
2002
Italy
Membership Board of Physicians and Surgeons
2003
The Sanford-Burnham Institute, La Jolla, San Diego, USA
Research visitor
2008
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland
PhD
2011
Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow
2014
UCL-Rosetrees Excellence Fellow, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, UCL, UK
Junior Group Leader
2017
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Group Leader
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Defining the identity and the niches of epithelial stem cells with highly pleiotropic multilineage potency in the human thymus

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Developmental Cell
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Reconstitution of a functional human thymus by postnatal stromal progenitor cells and natural whole-organ scaffolds

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