PhD in CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

email: fabio.ciccarone@uniroma2.it
phone: 0672594373
building: SOGENE
room: 366

Education and training

2006               Bachelor degree in Biological Sciences “Sapienza” University of Rome

2008               Master degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology “Sapienza” University of Rome

2012               PhD in Human Biology and Genetics “Sapienza” University of Rome

2012-2013      Fellowship from Pasteur Institute-Cenci Bolognetti Foundation, Rome

2013-2015      Post-Doc fellowship “Sapienza” University of Rome

2015-2018      FIRC fellowship from Italian association on cancer research (AIRC), University of Rome Tor Vergata

2018-2019      Post-Doc fellowship, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Employment

2019-2021      Assistant Professor (non-tenure track), San Raffaele Roma Open University

2019-present   Researcher at IRCCS San Raffaele Roma

2021-present   Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Rome Tor Vergata

Teaching

2019-2021       Biochemistry of physical exercise in the degree course of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at the San Raffaele Open University of Rome

2020-2021       Biochemical and molecular basis of human well-being in the master degree of Science and techniques of preventive and adapted physical activities at the San Raffaele Open University

2021-present   Biochemistry II in the degree course of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Biomedical Sciences, University of Rome Tor Vergata

2023-present   Cellular proteomics and principles of proteomics in the degree course of Bioinformatics, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Honours

2011    ONLUS PRIZE – AICC 2011 at the 24° Annual Conference of the Italian Cell Culture Network (ONLUS-AICC) - Istituto Regina Elena – Rome

2011    POSTER PRIZE at the congress Epigenomics of common disease, Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

2017    POSTER PRIZE by the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) at the 4th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Cancer Metabolism (ISCaM) in Bertinoro, Italy

Research interests

- Molecular mechanisms involved in microglia neuroinflammation and muscle atrophy in neurodegenerative diseases and aging with particular attention to metabolic and epigenetic processes

- Epigenetic/metabolic mechanisms involved in the development of neoplasms e in resistance to conventional and targeted therapies in tumor models