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She is a PostDoc at the Houston Methodist Research Institute (Houston, TX, USA) in the Center for Musculoskeletal Regeneration and the Department of Orthopedics and Sport Medicine - Taraballi lab. Her research is focused on stem cell therapy for orthopedic applications and the development of engineered biomimetic biomaterials to target the immune system toward tissue restoration.
She earned her PhD in Bioengineering and Medical-Surgical Science in July 2022 and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering in April 2018 after working at her Master Thesis for nine months in the Center for Musculoskeletal regeneration at Houston Methodist Research Institute (Texas, USA).
Her M.S. thesis research was focused on tissue engineering for different applications (bone, cartilage), particularly on the development and in vitro validation of smart biomaterials to tune the immune systems and promote cell survival and differentiation in tissue engineering for different applications.
After winning a Research Fellowship at the Department of Applied Science and Technology of Politecnico di Torino, since October 2018 She is a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Medica-Surgical Sciences working at Politecnico di Torino.
Her research activities are framed in two different European projects (ERC-BOOST and H2020-GIOTTO) and are focused on the design of drug delivery systems (polymeric and silica mesoporous particles) for the release of proteins and growth factors, their combination with natural polymers for the realization of collagen-based biomimetic and bioactive scaffolds realised by means of 3D printing technology for bone tissue engineering applications.
Furthermore, she designed and developed an injectable, bioresorbable composite bone cement with radiopaque, bioactive, pro-osteogenic and anti-osteoclastogenic features for the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures.
During her first year of PostDoc, she also concentrated on the optimization of devices for point-of-care diagnosis based on lateral flow technologies for the detection of COVID, tumoral and virial markers as well as agrifood pesticides. These devices would be integrated with biosensors such as MEMS and NEMS for the quantification of biomarkers.
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