PhD in CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

email: pier.federico.gherardini@uniroma2.it
phone: 06 7259 4324
building: SOGENE
room: 324

 

Education and training

2004 - B.Sc. cum laude in Biotechnology – University of Rome, Tor Vergata. Rome, Italy

2006 - M.Sc. cum laude in Bioinformatics – University of Rome, Tor Vergata. Rome, Italy

2009 - PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology – University of Rome, Tor Vergata. Rome, Italy

2016 - Ignite Certificate Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, USA

2020 - Developing Executive Leadership training certificate – American Management Association

Employment

Sep 2005 – Nov 2005 Visiting scientist, laboratory of Prof. Michael JE Sternberg – Imperial College, London, UK

Jan 2010 – Oct 2012 Post-doctoral fellow, laboratory of Prof.ssa Manuela Helmer-Citterich – University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy Oct 2012 – Aug 2016 Post-doctoral fellow, laboratory of prof. Garry Nolan – Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA

Nov 2015 Co-founder HepaTx corporation – Palo Alto, CA, USA

Sep 2016 – Jan 2018 Senior scientist, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy – San Francisco, CA, USA

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Associate Director of Technology Development, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy – San Francisco, CA, USA

Jan 2019 – Feb 2021 Director of Informatics, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy – San Francisco, CA, USA

Dec 2021 – May 2023 Senior Director of Computational Biology, Stealth Startup – Palo Alto, CA, USA

Jan 2022 – Present  Associate Professor of Molecular Biology (BIO/11) – University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

May 2023 – Present Vice President of Computational Biology, Stealth Startup – Palo Alto, CA, USA

Awards

2007 “Sebastiano e Rita Raeli” prize for the best graduates of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata

2013 Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (refused)

2013 Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

Teaching 

2004 – 2008 - TA and member of the exam commission for the “Bioinformatics” course (4 cfu) LT in Molecular and Cellular Biology – University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

2004 – 2008 - TA and member of the exam commission for the “Molecular Bioinformatics” course (4 cfu) LM in Molecular and Cellular Biology – University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

2016 - TA for the BIO 150 “Human Behavioral Biology” course (prof. Robert Sapolsky) – Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

2023 – 2024 - “Gene Expression” course (6 cfu) LM in Molecular and Cellular Biology – University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

2024 – 2025 - “Bioinformatics” course (6 cfu) LM in Bioinformatics – University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Scientific Interests

Development of experimental and computational methods for single-cell analysis

Integration and analysis of multi-omic data

Immunology

Cancer Immunotherapy