Developed skills and lines of research

Graziella Messina earned her PhD in Cellular and Developmental Biology in 2004 from La Sapienza University in Rome with a thesis on Cell density and skeletal muscle differentiation: the role of p27Kip1. Since 2014, she has been an Associate Professor of Histology at the University of Milan.

In the field of cystic fibrosis, Graziella Messina is studying special stem cells (mesoangioblasts) derived from the walls of blood vessels to repair damaged CF lung tissues.

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

FFC#5/2017
Dissecting the potency of human Mesoangioblasts to differentiate into CFTR-expressing epithelial cells: a step forward to an innovative cell-based therapy for Cystic Fibrosis disease

FFC#6/2015
Evaluation of the biological and therapeutic properties of mesoangioblasts-vessel associated progenitor cells in the cell based therapy of the cystic fibrosis disease

FFC#5/2013
Vessel associated progenitor cells as a promising cell-based approach to treat cystic fibrosis disease

Publications from FFC Research projects

Graziella Messina, Nicoletta Pedemonte. Dissecting the potency of human Mesoangioblasts to differentiate into CFTR-expressing epithelial cells: a step forward to an innovative cell-based therapy for Cystic Fibrosis disease. The Proceedings of the 16th Italian Convention of Investigators in Cystic Fibrosis. Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2019, 14 (Suppl 1):5