Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Laboratories 2025/2026 - 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 2025/2026 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.

8 PROJECTS-BASED FELLOWSHIP:

Project-Based Fellowship ECM1: CABIBBE ANDREA MAURIZIO

Unit: Emerging bacterial pathogens

ECM1: Evaluating minimally-invasive sampling and culture-free Next Generation Sequencing-based approaches for the rapid detection of infections and antimicrobial resistance

Project-Based Fellowship ECM2: ESPOSITO ANTONIO

Unit: Radiologia Dimer

ECM2: Targeted decision making In Renal Cell Carcinoma relying on a Radiogenomics Translational platform (TARGET-RCC)

Project-Based Fellowship ECM3: CLEMENTI NICOLA

Unit: Laboratory of microbiology and virology

ECM3: Development and characterization of in vitro models to evaluate bacterial cytolysin activity and its inhibition by molecules or monoclonal antibodies

Project-Based Fellowship ECM4: UNGARO FEDERICA

Unit: Experimental Gastroenterology, Division of Immunology

ECM4: Unraveling the spatial and temporal evolution of chronic esophageal diseases: profiling and potential overlap of eosinophilic esophagitis and Barrett esophagus

Project-Based Fellowship ECM5: ROTUNDO ROBERTO

Unit:  Dentistry

ECM5: Dental biochemistry

Project-Based Fellowship ECM6: DANESE SILVIO

Unit: Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy

ECM6: Risk of covert submucosal invasion cancer in Large NonPedunculated Colorectal Polyps: molecular and metagenomics characterization and correlation with histopathological findings

Project-Based Fellowship ECM7: DANESE SILVIO

Unit: Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy

ECM7: The role of Anterior Gradient Homolog 2 (AGR2) and Endoplasmic Reticulum ProteinRetaining Receptor (KDELR3) in the pathophysiology of Barrett's Esophagus: from mechanisms to clinical implications

Project-Based Fellowship ECM8: PERETTO GIOVANNI

Unit: Unità Operativa di Aritmologia ed Elettrofisiologia Cardiaca

ECM8: Exploring the arrhythmogenic role of apoptosis in inflammatory cardiomyopathy

ARCIDIACONO PAOLO GIORGIO

Unit: U.O.C. di Endoscopia Pancreato-Biliare ed Ecoendoscopia

Decoding the biological, molecular and clinical determinants of long-term efficacy of Gastric Outlet Restoration in Pancreatic Cancer

BARBONI PIETRO

Unit: Oculistica

Artificial Intelligence in the management of Dominant Optic Atrophy

BRIGANTI ALBERTO

Unit: Urological Research Institute (URI) - Department of Urology

Exploiting the Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Modulating the Tumor Microenvironment: An Innovative Approach in Prostate Cancer

CAVESTRO GIULIA MARTINA

Unit: Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Liquid biopsy and machine learning for early colorectal cancer, adenomas, Lynch cancers, and residual disease detection

CLEMENTI NICOLA

Unit: Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology

Molecular Characterization of Respiratory Viruses: From Attachment to Entry Efficiency and Immune Escape Mechanisms

DAGNA LORENZO

Unit: Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases (UNIRAR)

Advanced imaging techniques to disclose and quantify lung involvement in Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease

ESPOSITO ANTONIO

Unit: Radiologia Dimer

Cutting-edge IMAGING techologies to improve the SAFEty and the sustainability of LUNG cancer screening and the accuracy of non-invasive lung nodules characterization (IMAGING-SAFELUNG)

LANZANI CHIARA LIVIA

Unit: Nephrology and dialysis

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

PALUMBO DIEGO

Unit: Radiologia diagnostica/interventistica

Non-invasive characterization of liver parenchyma texture and body composition parameters dynamic changes during chemotherpahy

PAPPONE CARLO

Unit: Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology Unit -I.R.C.C.S Policlinico San Donato

lmmuno-genetic factors invg_lved in primary arrhyihmias susceptibility in the acyte phase of myocardial infgrction (FORTUNA trial)

PICCOLI MARCO

Unit: Institute of Molecular and Translational Cardiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato

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

QUERQUES GIUSEPPE

Unit:  Ophthalmology

Project1: Predicting the risk of diabetic neurodegenerative disorders by artifical intelligence tools based on retinal imaging Project2: Therapeutic Strategies for Non-neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration: Metabolic Evaluation Through Spectrally Resolved Autofluorescence and PhotoBioModulation Treatment.

RAMPOLDI LUCA

Unit: Molecular genetics of renal disorders

Role of uromodulin as a risk factor for hypertension and related kidney damage

RIPA MARCO

Unit: infectious Diseases

Exploring virulence factors, antimicrobial resistance, and biofilm-forming abilities of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: impact on clinical characteristics and outcomes

VERONESI GIULIA

Unit: Department of Thoracic Surgery

Artificial lntelligence tor heAlth and prevention of smoking-relateci diseases (ARIA)

YACOUB MONA-RITA

Unit: Allergy and Clinical Immunology Out-patient Clinic

Tracking the eosinophilic trail: molecular and cardiac MRI findings for early detection of myocardial involvement