Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Laboratories 2024/2025 - Experimental and Clinical Medicine

Please find below the list of the Supervisors (with a link to their CV) and their PhD Projects proposed for the academic year 2024/2025 for the curriculum in Experimental and Clinical Medicine.

The list includes the project based fellowships and below the free projects among which the candidates, who passed the first evaluation phase, must express their preference as indicated in the Call for Applications.

6 PROJECTS-BASED FELLOWSHIP:

Project-Based Fellowship ECM1: FERRARA ROBERTO

Unit: Medical Oncology Unit – IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele

ECM1: Hyperprogression upon PD-(L)1 inhibitors alone or with chemotherapy in PD-L1 ≥50% NSCLC: a biomarker guided phase 2 trial (HYPERBOLIC STUDY)

Project-Based Fellowship ECM2: SOLLINI MARTA

Unit: Nuclear Medicine Unit– IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele

ECM2: Advanced Imaging Techniques in FAPI PET/CT to Stage and Predict the Outcome of Bladder Cancer

Project-Based Fellowship ECM3: CHITI ARTURO

Unit: Nuclear Medicine Unit– IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele

Funded in the context of EU funds – NextGeneration EU- pursuant to DM 630/2024

ECM3: Development of Molecular Imaging Biomarkers for Solid Tumors

Project-Based Fellowship ECM4: ANASTASIA LUIGI

Unit: IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele e Istitute of Molecular and Translational Cardiology Policlinico San Donato

Funded in the context of EU funds – NextGeneration EU- pursuant to DM 630/2024

ECM4: Exploring Protein Sialylation in Brugada Syndrome: Implications for Clinical Management and Diagnosis

Project-Based Fellowship ECM5: ARCIDIACONO PAOLO GIORGIO

Unit: Pancreatico/Biliary Endoscopy & Endosonography Unit– IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele

Funded in the context of EU funds – NextGeneration EU- pursuant to DM 630/2024

ECM5: The application of deep learning tools at EUS to predict diagnosis, prognosis and molecular alterations in pancreatic cancer

Project-Based Fellowship ECM6: ALFANO MASSIMO

Unit: Extracellular Microenvironment Unit – IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele

Funded in the context of EU funds – NextGeneration EU- pursuant to DM 630/2024

ECM6: The predictive role of the microbiome in BGC response in patients with high-grade bladder cancer

Project-Based Fellowship ECM7:  NECCHI ANDREA

Unit: Genitourinary Medical Oncology

ECM7: An open label, single-arm, phase 2 study of neoadjuvant Trastuzumab Deruxtecan (T-DXd), before radical cystectomy or as an organ-sparing approach, for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who cannot receive or refuse cisplatin-based chemotherapy

Project-Based Fellowship ECM8: NECCHI ANDREA

Unit: Genitourinary Medical Oncology

ECM8: Understanding tumor and immune dynamics and predicting response to various perioperative therapies in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

ANNESE VITO

Unit: Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy, IRCCS Policinico San Donato

The role of Anterior Gradient Homolog 2 (AGR2) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Protein-Retaining Receptor (KDELR3) in the pathophysiology of Barrett's Esophagus: from mechanisms to clinical implications.

BARBONI PIETRO

Unit: Ophthalmology

Artificial Intelligence in the management of Dominant Optic Atrophy

BRIGANTI ALBERTO

Unit: Urologia 5Q 

Al implemented model for surgical and quality of life outcomes and patients counselling in men diagnosed with prostate cancer

CAPURSO GABRIELE

Unit: Biliopancreatic endoscopy

Investigation of molecular signatures of sarcopenia in pancreatic cancer

CLEMENTI NICOLA

Unit: Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology

Molecular characterization of SARS-CoV-2 viral variants: from the identification to the definition of entry efficiency and immune escape profile

CHITI ARTURO

Unit: Nuclear Medicine

Quantitative PET/MR in oncology

DE COBELLI FRANCESCO

Unit: Radiology

Combined treatments in Cholangiocarcinoma: Response to Treatment and Analysis of Predictive Factors

LANZANI CHIARA LIVIA

Unit: Nephrology and dialysis

Project1: Evaluation of metabolic, biohumoral, body composition and quality of life effects of low-protein diet (LPD) in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Project2: Multidisciplinary dissection of renal effects of glyfozines on elderly patients: from molecular aspects to clinical indications.

UNGARO FEDERICA

Unit: Digestive Diseases

Unraveling the spatial and temporal evolution of chronic esophageal diseases: profiling and potential overlap of eosinophilic esophagitis and Barrett esophagus

VAGO RICCARDO

Unit: Extracellular Vesicles and Toxins (URI)

Analysis of extracellular vesicle-carried factors leading to bladder cancer progression