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2010-11 AICF Fellows

Amabile.jpgGiovanni Amabile, PhD

Originating Institution:  University of Rome "La Sapienza" 

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Mentor:  Daniel G. Tenen, MD

Study:  Unraveling the role of epigenetic aberrations in human leukemia development and progression

 

Alessia Balestrini.jpgAlessia Balestrini, PhD

Originating Institution:  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Mentor:   John Petrini, PhD

Study:  RPA sumoylation and DNA replications stress

 

Ciro Bonetti.jpgCiro Bonetti, PhD, Debra and Claudio Del Vecchio Fellow

Originating Institution:  Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Mentor:  Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD

Study:  Contribution of the cluster miR-17-92 in hematopoiesis and hematological malignancies

 

Michele Cea.jpgMichele Cea, MD, In Memory of Ennio Arengi 

Originating Institution:  University of Genoa

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Mentor:  Kenneth C. Anderson, MD

Study:  Investigating the role of NAD+ and NAD+ dependent enzymes in multiple melanoma

 

Antonella Cristofano.jpgAntonella Cristofano, MD, Nicola Bulgari & Gabelli Funds Fellow 

Originating Institution:  Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Mentor:  Pat Zanzonico, PhD

Study:  Role of FDG and FLT PET as an early, non-invasive predictor of tumor response to antbxacyclines and taxane: A pre-clinical microPET study of mouse models of breast cancer

 

untitled2.jpgAndrea D'Osualdo, PhD, Genta, Inc. Fellow 

Originating Institution:  Gaslini Scientific Institute

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Mentor:   John C. Reed, MD, PhD

Study:  Role of TUCAN and NLRP1 in chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) associated colon tumorigenesis

 

donato 2.jpgValerio Donato, MD, PhD, Amy & Joseph Perella Fellow

Originating Institution:  University of Perugia

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  NYU Cancer Institute

Mentor:  Michele Pagano, MD

Study:  Investigating the roles of Fbxo9 in multiple myeloma

 

Filippo Filicori.gifFilippo Filicori, MD, The Alexander Bodini Foundation Fellow 

Originating Institution:  University of Bologna

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Weill Cornell Medical College

Mentor:  Rasa Zarnegar, MD

Study:  In vivo nanoplatform for targeted delivery of Cu64 liposomes to thyroid cancer xenografts

 

gardini.jpgAlessandro Gardini, PhD

Originating Institution:  European Institute of Oncology

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  The Wistar Institute

Mentor:  Ramin Shiekhattar, PhD

Study:  Functional dissection of long non-coding RNA's in humans

 

Luigi Nezi.jpgLuigi Nezi, PhD

Originating Institution:  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Mentor:  David Pellman, MD

Study:  A mechanism linking whole-chromosome aneuploidy to DNA breaks

 

Oldrini photo.jpgBarbara Oldrini, PhD

Originating Institution:  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Mentor:  Ingo K. Mellinghoff, MD

Study:  Dissecting the mechanism of EGFR signal termination by the PTEN tumor suppressor

 

Antonella Papa photo.jpgAntonella Papa, PhD

Originating Institution:  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Mentor:  Pier Paolo Pandolfi MD, PhD

Study:  Generation of new mouse model for the tumor suppressor PTEN

 

Fabiana Perna.jpgFabiana Perna, PhD, The Alexander Bodini Foundation Fellow 

Originating Institution:  University of Naples "Federico II"

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Mentor:  Stephen Nimer, MD

Study:  The function of l(3)mbtl1 in 20q-hematological malignancies

 

Rabellino.jpgAndrea Rabellino, PhD

Originating Institution:  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Mentor:  Pier Paolo Scaglioni, MD

Study:  Identification of the signaling networks regluating oncogene induced replicative senescence in non small cell lung cancer

 

Marco Simonetta.jpgMarco Simonetta, PhD

Originating Institution:  University of California, San Francisco

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  University of California, San Francisco

Mentor:  David Toczyski, PhD

Study:  Identification of novel ubiquitination substrates using biochemical approaches in budding yeast

 

Francesco Strino.gifFrancesco Strino, PhD

Originating Institution:  Göteborg University, Sweden

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Yale University School of Medicine

Mentor:  Yuval Kluger, PhD

Study:  Development of complex system tools for fingerprinting subclonal tumor composition

 

Lorenzo Trippa.jpgLorenzo Trippa, PhD

Originating Institution:  Bocconi University

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Mentor:  Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD

Study:  Familiar risk for multiple malignancies

 

Ciro Zanca.jpgCiro Zanca, PhD

Originating Institution:  University of Naples "Federico II"

Postdoctoral Fellowship:  The Ludwig Institute, University of California, San Diego

Mentor:  Webster K. Cavenee, PhD

Study:  Maintenance of glioma heterogeneity through wild type and mutant EGFR interactions