Neuroscience and Experimental Neurology

Laboratories 2025/2026 - Neuroscience and Experimental Neurology

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 Neuroscience and Experimental Neurology.

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.

5 PROJECT-BASED FELLOWSHIPS:

Project-Based Fellowship NEN1: DE GREGORIO DANILO

Unit: Neuropsychopharmacology

NEN 1: Investigating the ability of hallucinogenic compounds to revert fentanyl-induced maladaptive neuroplastic change

Project-based Fellowship NEN2: PREVITALI STEFANO CARLO

Unit: Neuromuscular Repair

NEN 2: Thymic Disease, Autoimmunity, and Neuromuscular Junction Integrity in Myasthenia Gravis: A Prospective Translational Cohort Study

Project-based Fellowship NEN3: ROCCA MARIA ASSUNTA

Unit Neuroimaging of CNS White Matter Unit, INSPE, Division of Neuroscience – IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele

NEN 3: Identifying distinct phenotypes and prognostic markers in rare central nervous system autoimmune diseases

Project-based fellowship NEN4: D'ANTONIO MAURIZIO

Unit: Biology of Myelin Unit

NEN 4: Dissecting PMP22 mutations: from demyelinating neuropathies to motor neuron-like pathologies

Project-Based Fellowship NEN 5: FURLAN ROBERTO

Unit: Clinical Neuroimmunology Unit

NEN 5: Extracellular vesicles released by engineered transplanted cells as CNS drug delivery tool

BOLINO ALESSANDRA

Unit: Human Inherited Neuropathies Unit

AAV-mediated gene therapy to treat inherited neuropathies with aberrant myelin

BONANOMI DARIO

Unit: Molecular Neurobiology

Probing and targeting dysfunctional cell phenotypes in motor neuron disease

COLASANTE GAIA

Unit: Stem cells and neurogenesis

Investigating the role of Scn1a in non-neuronal cell types in the brain

COLNAGHI LUCA

Unit: Protein Signalling in Brain Physiology and Pathology

Towards an understanding of the molecular basis of NEDAMSS, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder

ESPOSITO FEDERICA

Unit: Laboratory of Human Genetics of Neurological Disorders

Central and peripheral irranunophenot yping to dissect disease heterogeneity in multiple sclerosis

GALLI ROSSELLA

Unit: Neural stem cell biology

Leveraging dysregulated sphingosine-1-phosphate metabolism as a subtype-specific liability in high-risk MYC-driven medulloblastoma

LUONI MIRKO

Unit: Stem Cells and Neurogenesis

Unraveling MeCP2 Function in Physiology and Gene Therapy Contexts

PANINA PAOLA

Unit: Neuroimmunology

Dissecting Gene Regulatory Mechanisms i n Multiple Sclerosis

POLETTI SARA

Unit: Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology

Profiling vulnerability and resilience for mental illness following viral infections

ROCCA MARIA ASSUNTA

Unit: Neuroimaging of CNS White Matter Unit, INSPE, Division of Neuroscience

In vivo evaluation of glymphatic system abnormalities in multiple sclerosis: novel insights into disease pathophysiology and clinical impact using advanced MRI techniques

SASSONE JENNY

Unit: Neuropsychopharmacology

Investigating necroptosis inhibition as therapeutic strategy in Autosomal Recessive Juvenile Parkinsonism

SESSA ALESSANDRO

Unit: Neuroepigenetics

Exploring the feasibility of Gene Therapy for SETBP1 Haploinsufficiency Disorder

TAVEGGIA CARLA

Unit: Axo-gliali interaction

Molecular Mechanisms regulating perineural invasion in pancreatic adenocarcinoma Role of Plexin D1 in peripheral myelination