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Biographical sketch Jenny Sassone

Born in Alessandria on 11/13/1976
Honors Degree in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Milan (Faculty of Pharmacy).
Honors Degree in Medical Genetics at the University of Milan (Faculty of Medicine).

Curriculum
From 2001 to 2004, fellowship at the Laboratory of Neuroscience IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Milan. From 2004 to 2014, research assistant at the Laboratory of Neuroscience Institute IRCCS Auxologico Italiano, dealing with research on molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease and molecular diagnostics on triplet diseases. From 2014 to 2016, research assistant at the IRCCS Carlo Besta Neurological Institute, where she was involved in research on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in motor neuron diseases and molecular mechanisms responsible for neuropathic pain. In 2010 she was a visiting scientist at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta; in 2016 a visiting scientist at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Ferrara and at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathophysiology, University of Milan. In 2016 she was awarded the Telethon-Farmindustria Prize for research in neuroscience.
Since March 2017, assistant professor in Pharmacology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.

Research Areas
Molecular and cellular dysfunctions underlying Neurodegenerative Diseases, in particular Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
In particular, her studies aim at understanding the synaptic alterations present in the early stages of neurodegenerative diseases and aim at identifying and validating novel drug targets.