Associate Professor of Histology
University of Milan / IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital
Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Barbara Cassani, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Histology at the University of Milan (Italy), and Senior group leader at the Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan. She graduated from the University of Milan in Pharmacy and received her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan − Open University, London, working at the Telethon Institute for Gene therapy on ADA-SCID Gene therapy. Supported by an EMBO Long-term Fellowship, she performed her postdoctoral studies at the Gastrointestinal Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA. By the end of 2012, she moved back to Italy and started up her own group at the Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research of the National Research Council (IRGB-CNR), where she became Primo Ricercatore, prior to joining the University of Milan. Her group is interested in dissecting the role of host-microbiota interaction in the pathogenesis of primary immune deficiencies and autoimmunity. It also explores the mechanisms involved in tissue tolerance and immune resistance against bacterial challenges.
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Immune Dysregulation and Microbiota in Primary Immune Deficiency
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
1:00pm - 1:25pm East Coast USA Time
