Developed skills and lines of research

Graduated in Biological Sciences in 1990 from the University of Genoa, Cereseto obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology International Education Evaluation at Charlotte, NC, USA. She is currently a full professor at Department of Cell, Computational and Integrated Biology – CIBIO (Trento, Italy). She spent various periods of research in the USA, at the National Institute of Health (NIH), at Cornell University in New York, and at Mount Sinai School of Medicine also in New York. Back in Italy, she worked from 1999 to 2001 at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome; then, from 2001 to 2003, at the ICGEB in Trieste; and since 2003 she has been a researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She is interested in the study of cellular transformation mechanisms, of cellular or viral mechanisms leading to proliferation abnormalities and is engaged in studies on genome editing, a cutting-edge subject today.

Projects funded by FFC Ricerca as Principal Investigator or as Research Manager

FFC#2/2021
Harnessing CRISPR-Cas technology to revert F508del and 2789+5G>A CFTR defects

FFC#3/2019
Harnessing CRISPR/Cas9 technology to revert F508del-CFTR defect

FFC#1/2017
SpliceFix: fixing splicing defects in the CFTR gene through CRISPR/Cas9 technology

FFC Research strategic project 2024-2027. GenDel-CF Gene transfer strategies in the lungs for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (GenDel-CF)

Publications from FFC Research projects

Giulia Maule, Antonio Casini, Claudia Montagna, et al. Allele specific repair of splicing mutations in cystic fibrosis through AsCas12a genome editing. Nat Commun. 2019; 10: 3556.