Alessio Di Cristofaro

researcher

Alessio Di Cristofaro

Technician

He graduated in Molecular Biology and Genetics in 2020 at University of Pavia.

His experiences moved from biochemical analysis, molecular biology and cellular and bacterial biology at Department of Molecular Medicine – Biochemistry Unit of University of Pavia.

Since January 2022 – He is working on the Ricerca Finalizzata 2019 project – “Exploiting circulating levels of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition transcription factors (EMT-TFs) RNAs for the diagnosis of colorectal and pancreatic cancer“. The project has the same structure as the patent and exploits the levels in blood (“liquid biopsy”) of biomarkers of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) for the diagnosis of colorectal (CRC) and pancreatic (PC) cancer.

From March 2021 to December 2021 – He investigated on AIRC IG 2018 Id.22234: “H63D variant of the HFE gene as modifier of pancreatic cancer progression: a model for dissecting host immune response.