Role
Full Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Genoa.
Bio
After graduating in Physics with a focus on Biophysics from the University of Genoa (1992), she specialized in Medical Statistics from the University of Milan (1998), and completed her training in Medical Physics and Biomedical Imaging in Pisa. She collaborated with the National Institute for Cancer Research (IST) in Genoa and for a decade with the Neuroimaging Research Unit at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. Since 2005, she has been teaching at the University of Genoa, where she holds the position of Full Professor of Medical Statistics.
An international expert in biostatistics and research methodology, she focuses her work on data analysis applied to neurodegenerative diseases and oncology. She is a leading expert in MRI and multiple sclerosis studies, evaluating the efficacy of advanced treatments such as hematopoietic cell transplantation and stem cell therapies (MESEMS study). She has also developed clinical and surrogate endpoints for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, leukemia, and breast cancer .
During the coronavirus pandemic, she coordinated important national and international studies on the impact of Covid-19 infection, investigating Covid-19 complications in people with multiple sclerosis and the response to vaccines in people with multiple sclerosis . She is currently Chair of the Clinical Trial Committee of the National US MS Society and ECTRIMS. She is a member of the editorial board of the Multiple Sclerosis Journal and has over 600 scientific publications with an h-index of 98; she was recognized by the ONDA Observatory as one of the Top Italian Women Scientists.