The team

Former members

Postdocs

Maria Felica Soluri  (2012-2019), now technician @CAAD

Olja Tarasiuk, PhD in Science and Medical Biotechnology (2015-2019), then postdoc @ Univ. Milano-Bicocca (2019 - 2025), now researcher @ the de Duve Institute, Bruxelles (Belgium)

PhD students

Chiara Mocchetti, PhD in "Food, Health and longevity studies" (expected July 2025), now research assistant in Francesca Oltolina's lab. 

Laura Patrucco, PhD in Human Biotechnologies (2012-2016), now high school teacher

Master students

Enrico Sorrenti, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2025)

Ruqiya Anees, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2025)

Parnia Binafar, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2025)

Ghazal Rahimi, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2025)

Martina Gorla, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2024), now postgraduate fellow @UPO

Tonderai Vitalis Chawanda, in Medical Biotechnology (2024), now PhD student @UPO (Cotella's lab)

Amirreza Abbasi, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2024), now postgraduate fellow @UPO

Grace Jabali, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2023), now PhD student @UPO (Manfredi's lab)

Haswitha Sabbineni, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2022), now PhD student @Vanderbilt University

Tatiana Starikova, MSc in Medical Biotechnology (2022), now MS student in Chemical Biotechnology @TU Munich

Ifeoluwa "Ife" Ayomide Dada, MSc in Med Biotech (2020), now PhD student @the University of Montana

Miriam Galasso, MSc in Medical Biotechnologies (2018), now high school teacher

Christhudasan Marsilian, MSc in Medical Biotechnologies (2016), now professional nurse in Germany

Andrea Chiesa, MSc in Medical Biotechnologies (2015), now lab technician @DiaSorin SpA

Bachelor students

Alessandro Mensi, BSc in Biotechnology (2025)

Alessandro Olivieri, BSc in Biotechnology (2025)

Daisy Saccà, BSc in Biotechnology (2025), now MSc student MedBiotech @UPO

Vincenzo Martucci, BSc in Biotechnology (2025)

Noemi Mora, BSc in Biotechnology (2024)

Ornella Ejlli, BSc in Biotechnology (2024), now MSc student in  Molecular Biology of the Cell @univ. Milano  

Riccardo Caccia, BSc in Biotechnology (2024)

Lorenzo Mancuso, BSc in Biotechnology (2024)

Lorenzo Maraschi, BSc in Biotechnology (2024), now MSc student MedBiotech @UPO

Martina Marangotto, BSc in Biotechnology (2024), now educator @PAROLE INSIEME

Elisa Codini, BSc in Biotechnology (2023)

Elisa Irmici, BSc in Biotechnology (2023)

Leonardo Platania, BSc in Biotechnology (2023)

Gabriel Pinoli, BSc in Biotechnology (2023)

Arianna Ferrari, BSc in Biotechnology (2023), now MSc student MedBiotech @UPO

Federico Borio Almo, BSc in Biotechnology (2023), now MSc student in Industrial Biotechnologies @Univ. Milano

Riccardo Fontana, BSc in Biotechnology (2022), then MSc in Advanced Biotechnologies, Univ. of Pavia (2024), now PhD student @UPO (Espinoza's lab)

Daniele Rossi, BSc in Biotechnology (2022)

Martina Ippolito, BSc in Biotechnology (2022), then Dual Master's in Food & Biochemical Technology and Biotechnology for the Bio-based & Health Industry, UCT Prague (2024)

Alessandro Digilio, BSc in Biotechnology (2022), now undergraduate intern @Human Technopole

Luca Cattaneo, BSc in Biotechnology (2021), now Master student in Industrial Biotechnology @Univ. Insubria

Andrea Malvicino, BSc in Biotechnology (2021), now Master student in Medical Biotechnology @Univ. Pavia

Andrea Butticè, BSc in Biotechnology (2021), now Master student in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology @UPO

Riccardo Nuzzi, BSc in Biotechnology (2021), now Master student in Medical Biotechnology @UPO

Stefano Pich, BSc in Biotechnology (2021), then BSc in Physiotherapy @UPO (2024)

Melissa Morra, BSc in Biotechnology (2021), now PhD student @ the University of Turin

Alessandro Bortolami, BSc in Biotechnology (2020), then PhD student @Rutgers University - USA (2025), then postdoc @Harvard

Vittoria Federica Borrini, BSc in Biotechnology (2020), MSc in MedBiotech @UPO (2022), now PhD student @UPO (Manfredi's lab)

Gaia Battafarano, BSc in Biotechnology (2020)

Denise Marradi, BSc in Biotechnology (2020), MSc in MedBiotech @UPO (2022), now PhD student @UPO (Manfredi's lab)

Giulia Caranta, BSc in Biotechnology (2020), now @GSK

Federico Insoli, BSc in Biotechnology (2020)

Davide Ferrati, BSc in Biotechnology (2020), now @Ospedale San Raffaele

Oscar Marangoni, BSc in Biotechnology (2019), now lab technician @Madreperla SpA

Sabrina D’Amelio, BSc in Biotechnology (2019), now Research fellow @University of Milan

Ludovica Tumolo, BSc in Biotechnology (2019), now Marketing Diabetes Intern  @AstraZeneca

Vittorio Ivagnes, BSc in Biotechnology (2019), now PhD student @Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome

Luca Gandini, BSc in Biotechnology (2019), now Associate Scientist @Crown Bioscience (NL)

Alessandro Bovio,  BSc in Biotechnology (2019), now @Gruppo SAVIO

Giulia Ottolini, BSc in Biotechnology (2019), now @Arjo (SE) 

Sara Ferrari, BSc in Biotechnology (2019)

Arianna Aletto, BSc in Biotechnology (2019)

Simone Gobbato, BSc in Biotechnology (2019), now PhD student @UPO (Gennari's lab)

Fabiola Stolfi, BSc in Biotechnology (2018), now PhD student @UPO (Chiocchetti's lab)

Carolina Bezzi, BSc in Biotechnology (2018), then PhD @Uni San Raffaele - Milan (2025)

Fabio Ferrario, BSc in Biotechnology (2016), now nutritionist in Busto Arsizio (Milan)