Giuseppina BOZZUTO
Giuseppina BOZZUTO
(Istituto Superiore di Sanità)
Dr. Bozzuto Giuseppina graduated "cum laude" in Applied Biology to Biomedical Research at “Sapienza" University in Rome and in the same University received her PhD in Experimental Medicine.
She works as contract researcher at the Institute of Chemical Methodologies of National Research Council, and at the Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome where she has been gaining experience on cancer cell biology and innovative anticancer therapies. She focuses her research on tumor-cell invasion strategies and mechanisms underlying the multidrug resistance phenomenon and the invasive properties of tumor cells. She also explores the chemosensitizing activity of natural products for anticancer therapy in in vitro studies. In the field of Nanotechnology she carries out the study on the relationships between the ultrastructural characteristics and the biological effects of nanodevices, with particular regards to the intracellular final fate and drug delivery efficiency of liposomal formulations.
Dr. Bozzuto is author of 27 publications on national and international journals. She has participated to national and international conferences and workshops with more than 40 comunications. She has given lectures on specialized topics in workshops and postgraduated master courses. She is Member of Italian Society of Cellular Cultures and of Italian Society for Microscopical Sciences and she has received numerous awards and honors.
