The Department CIBIO is currently home to 36 independent research groups (amounting to ~200 scientists), focusing on four broad research areas:
Cancer Biology & Genomics | Cell & Molecular Biology | Microbiology & Synthetic Biology | Neurobiology & Development
Cancer Biology & Genomics
- Armenise-Harvard Cancer Biology & Genetics - Andrea Lunardi
- Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of Brain Disorders and Cancer - Luca Tiberi
- Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics - Emilio Cusanelli
- Computational and Functional Oncology - Francesca Demichelis
- Experimental Cancer Biology - Maria Caterina Mione
- Gene Expression - Giovanni Stefani
- Genomic Screening - Alessandro Provenzani
- Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics - Alessandro Romanel
- Chromatin Biology & Epigenetics - Alessio Zippo
- Molecular Cancer Genetics - Yari Ciribilli
- Protein Crystallography and Structure-Based Drug Design - Graziano Lolli
- Translational Genomics - Alessandro Quattrone
- Transcriptional Networks - Alberto Inga
Cell & Molecular Biology
- Chromosome Segregation Biology - Peter De Wulf
- Metabolism of Cell Growth and Neuronal Survival - Paola Bellosta
- Dulbecco Telethon Prions and Amyloids - Emiliano Biasini
- Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of Cell Division - Luca Fava
- Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology - Paolo Macchi
- Molecular Virology - Anna Cereseto
- Molecular and Cellular Ophthalmology - Lucia Poggi
- RNA biology and Biotechnology - Michela A. Denti
- Virus-Cell Interaction - Massimo Pizzato
Microbiology & Synthetic Biology
- Armenise-Harvard Synthetic and Reconstructive Biology - Sheref S. Mansy
- Artificial Biology - Martin M. Hanczyc
- Bacterial, Genetics and Physiology - Orietta Massidda
- Computational Metagenomics - Nicola Segata
- Microbial Genomics - Olivier Jousson
- Synthetic and Structural Vaccinology - Guido Grandi
Neurobiology & Development
- Armenise-Harvard Axonal Neurobiology - Marie-Laure Baudet
- Dulbecco Telethon Biology of Synapses - Giovanni Piccoli
- Neural Development and Regeneration - Simona Casarosa
- Dulbecco Telethon Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine - Stefano Biressi
- NeuroEpigenetics - Marta Biagioli
- Neurogenomic Biomarkers - Enrico Domenici
- Stem Cell Biology - Luciano Conti
- Transcriptional Neurobiology - Manuela Basso
- Translational Neurogenetics - Matthias Carl