Affiliations
Ph.D. student, Department of Internal Medicine (DiMI), University of Genoa, IT
Visiting fellow, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine (New York, USA)
Biosketch
As a Ph.D. student in Translational Oncology at the Department of Internal Medicine of the University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy), my research interests include the assessment of noninvasive biomarkers for the early detection and clinical management of breast cancer, the evaluation of the impact of different systemic treatments on vaccination in neoplastic patients, and the study of mesenchymal cell populations in prostate cancer tumor microenvironment.
In particular, I received my MD summa cum laude at the University of Genoa with a thesis discussing the potential clinical utility of plasma cell-free DNA fragmentation in the assessment of the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients affected by breast cancer.
During the first Year of my Ph.D. program I coordinated the recruitment phase of the RENOVATE trial (NCT04781062), building a biobank of more than 350 plasma and urine samples collected from a highly selected cohort of women undergoing breast biopsy for suspect lesions detected by mammography. The same year, I gave a critical contribution to both the design and the recruitment phase of the BO0STER trial, aimed at assessing the impact of different systemic therapies on the immune response to the booster dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine in patients affected by solid and hematologic malignancies.
At the end of the second year of my Ph.D. program, I joined as Visiting Fellow Massimo Loda’ s laboratory at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine (New York, USA). My research activity in Loda’s laboratory is focusing on the study of prostate cancer tumor microenvironment, with particular regard to the role of cancer-associated fibroblasts in cancer initiation and progression.
Contacts
Email: francesco.ravera@edu.unige.it
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Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum