PhD in BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Francesca Servadei is a RTT Researcher in Anatomic Pathology (SSD MEDS-04/A, formerly MED/08) at the Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

In 2014, she earned a PhD in Advanced Technologies in Biomedicine from the same university, with a dissertation entitled “Histological characterization of sympathetic nervous system innervation in the renal arteries of normotensive, hypertensive, and hemodialysis chronic kidney disease subjects.”

Dr. Servadei serves as an Adjunct Professor of Anatomic Pathology I and II (SSD MEDS-04/A, formerly MED/08) in the English-taught single-cycle Master’s Degree Program in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. At the same university, she also lectures in Anatomic Pathology for the Master’s Degree Program in Medical Biotechnology and for the Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques.

Her research activity primarily focuses on cardiovascular pathology, with particular emphasis on the morphologic and molecular characterization of atheromatous lesions and ectopic calcification processes. Additional areas of interest include fetal and placental pathology, oncological diseases—with a specific focus on breast pathology—and toxico-pathological studies investigating the role of tissue accumulation of environmental contaminants in the development of neoplastic and atheromatous lesions.

She is the author of 44 scientific papers, with an H-index of 15 and 1070 citations (source: Scopus).

She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Discovery Oncology, published by Springer Nature.

She was co-founder of the university spin-off TMALab s.r.l.