Maria Rescigno

Maria Rescigno graduated in Biology in 1990 at the University of Milan. From 1991 to 1994 she worked at the University of Cambridge, UK, in the Department of Biochemistry, as a visiting scholar. From 1995 to 1999, she worked at the National Research Council of Milan where she obtained her PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1999. From 1999 to 2001 she worked at the University of Milan-Bicocca where she specialized in Applied Biotechnologies.

Since 2001, she has been the director of the Dendritic Cell Biology and Immunotherapy Unit in the Department of Experimental Oncology at the European Institute of Oncology. Dr. Rescigno's main scientific research interests are the development of new immunotherapy approaches using cellular therapy techniques based on the use of dendritic cells and bacteria. Maria Rescigno is the author of over 100 publications in prestigious journals, including Nature, Nature Immunology, Immunity, J. Exp, Med, Science Translational Medicine.

In 2007, she was appointed as an EMBO young investigator, since 2008 she has been a visiting professor at the University of Oslo, and in 2011 she won the Avon Running Donna symbol City of Milan award.