Associate Professor in Medical Genetics, Università degli Studi di Milano (unimi), Italy. Director of Post-Graduate Specializing School in Medical Genetics, unimi.Member of the Ethics Committee Board, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano.Head of UOS “Laboratori di Ricerca” Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano.
Education and professional experience 1987: MA Degree in Biological Science.1987–1993: Research fellow and training in Medical Genetics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano. 1993–1998: PhD fellow in molecular and cellular biology, Department of Biology and Genetics for Medical Sciences. 1999: PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, unimi.1999–2006: University researcher in Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. 2006–present: Associate Professor in Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery.
Research interest Genetic and Epigenetics bases of human disease.Development of molecular diagnostic tests for epigenetic and genetics alterations. Nutrigenomics.
Reviewer activities: International programmes - Reviewer EU “Research Framework Programme”: FP6-HEALTH-2007-1.2-6 Diagnostic, Brussels, 2007 FP7-HEALTH- 1.2.2 Diagnostics – Epigenetics, Brussels, 2009. - The Chief Scientist Office Experimental and Translational Medicine Research Committee, Experimental and Translational Medicine Research in Scotland, April 2011. - The National Centre for Research and Development, Poland . Reviewer of proposals from 2012.
From 2010: PLoS ONE, Academic Editor
H index (Scopus): 30MM is author of about 100 peer reviewed papers