The SIICA Mentoring Program for Postdocs aims at supporting post-doctoral researchers in facing the challenges of their career paths by providing personalized mentoring.
The SIICA Mentoring Program for Postdocs will offer an empowering environment for the professional growth of Postdoctoral Researchers and could provide concrete help in dealing with uncertainties, challenges and failures that are part of our everyday professional life.
The SIICA Mentoring Program for Postdocs 2023 is open to 12 mentees.
The Call is now CLOSED.
PostDoc at Cochin Institute, Paris (France)
Research interests: T cell motility & anti-tumor response
Mentor: Prof. Giuseppe Lupo, Sapienza University
Research Scholar at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), USA.
Research interests: NK/ILC, cancer immunology, cytokine signalling and regulation of immune responses
Mentor: Prof. Ivan Zanoni, Harvard Medical School (USA).
Post Doc fellow at Mucosal Immunology lab, University of Milano-Bicocca
Research interests: crosstalk between immune cells and the microbiota using transcriptomic approaches
Mentor: Prof. Teresa Zelante, Perugia University
PostDoc in Francesco Ferrari’s Lab in IFOM (Milan, Italy).
Research interests: genomics and epigenetic regulation of cell identity.
Mentor: Prof. Valentina Bollati (University of Milan)
Postdoc at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) -Genova
Research interests: ALS, RNA-binding protein and aptamers
Mentor: Chiara Lanzuolo, Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare (INGM)
Project manager and Clinical Study Coordinator,
Thoracic Surgery Department Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli (Rome)
Research interests: predictive models for lung cancer patients, using various omics-based variables with clinical factors and advanced imaging features
Mentor: Prof. Roberta Zappasodi, Cornell University (USA)
Postdoctoral Researcher at Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy
Research interests: cancer-related inflammation, immune checkpoints, IL-1R family
Mentor: Raffaella Di Micco, Tiget, Milan
PostDoc in Mucosal Immunology, University of Milano-Bicocca and Policlinico di Milano Ospedale Maggiore-IRCCS Ca’ Granda
Research interests: Interactions between the immune system and the microbiota in gastrointestinal cancers and in inflammatory diseases.
Mentor: MD. Prof. Manuela Raffatellu, University of California San Diego (UCSD, USA)
