Role
Scientific Officer at CAATevents, in collaboration with CAAT, the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, USA).
Bio
After graduating in Bioorganic Chemistry from the University of Milan in 1989, she began her career as a chromatography specialist. After an experience at ECVAM (the European Commission's Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods) coordinating projects on alternative methodologies, she became Scientific Officer for CAAT-Europe at the University of Konstanz (in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore) and Project Manager at TEAM Mastery Srl for the implementation of the REACH regulation . She left this position in 2026 to devote herself entirely to the promotion of new human-based scientific methodologies.
Her scientific activity focuses on developing alternatives to animal testing , promoting in vitro tests and scientifically advanced official toxicological methods to overcome traditional animal testing and reduce the use of animal testing . She works on developing testing strategies and registering dossiers for chemical substances, as well as studying ways to improve the standardization of methods and increase their regulatory acceptability.
In addition to being active in this field as a freelancer, she participates in various working groups within scientific associations, such as SITOX (Italian Society of Toxicology), ISDE (Medici per l'Ambiente Association), EUROoC (European Society for Organ-on-Chip), and regulatory agencies as an Accredited Stakeholder with ECHA, EFSA, and ECVAM. She has published numerous articles in international journals such as ALTEX, ATLA, and Nature.