Developed skills and lines of research

In 2005, after graduating with honors in Biological Sciences from the University of Naples Federico II, Elvira Sondo joined the Medical Genetics Unit of the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genoa. From the outset, she has been involved in several projects funded by theItalian Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation aimed at identifying new therapeutic strategies for cystic fibrosis. In 2012, she obtained a Specialization Diploma in Clinical Pathology and in 2016 a PhD in Genetics from the University of Genoa. During these years, she has focused her attention on the search for new molecules for the correction of the basic defect of cystic fibrosis with several publications reporting the identification of correctors and potentiators of the CFTR protein. In 2018, she won a grant funded by the Ministry of Health as a young researcher to study new therapeutic approaches for patients with cystic fibrosis with rare mutations. In 2019, she received the Gerd Doring Award for her contribution to cystic fibrosis. Since 2020, she has been the head of the Primary Cultures service, which provides researchers of the FFC Ricerca Network with a collection of primary cell cultures obtained from bronchial epithelium of CF and non-CF patients, using explanted lungs from subjects undergoing lung transplantation.

Projects financed by FFC Ricerca as a partner

FFC#1/2021
Multiomics exploration of the CF primary bronchial epithelium lipidome and its role on CFTR rescue