People

Veronica Krenn (ITA)

Principal Investigator

Veronica graduated cum Laude in Industrial Biotechnologies at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She obtained her PhD in Molecular Medicine at the University of Milan, working on molecular mechanisms of cell division under the supervision of Andrea Musacchio. For her Postdoc, she joined the laboratory of Jürgen Knoblich at IMBA in Vienna, where she started to work on human brain organoids and applied them to the study of genetic and infection-based neurodevelopmental diseases.
In 2022, she joined the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca as Principal Investigator, after being awarded with the Early Career Fellowship promoted by the Human Technopole.

Anna Cascio (ITA)

DIMET PhD candidate

E-mail: a.cascio6@campus.unimib.it

Anna graduated summa cum laude in Biology applied to Research in Biomedicine at the University of Milan. She previously focused on the study of neuroinflammation using in vitro models of neurodegeneration. She is now developing new strategies to engineer brain organoids to study the contribution of microglia to the ethiology of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Sara Barilà (ITA)

DIMET PhD Candidate

E-mail: s.barila1@campus.unimib.it

Sara graduated summa cum laude in Biology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. In her PhD project, she is investigating the contribution of genetic variants to the ethiology of neurodevelopmental disorders using human stem cells-derived organoid models.

Chiara Riccardi (ITA)

Postgraduate Fellow

E-mail: c.riccardi3@campus.unimib.it

Chiara graduated summa cum laude in Biology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She is exploring the expression profiles of gene variants linked to neurodevelopmental disorders in human stem cells and brain organoids.

Eray Korkmaz (TUR)

Erasmus+ Trainee

E-mail: eray077korkmaz@gmail.com

Eray comes from the Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey.

He is developing image analysis tools

to accelerate brain organoid phenotyping

Alumni

Simon Volker (FRA) | Trainee, 2024
Aidana Kutzhanova (KAZ) | Trainee, 2024
Agustina Ranieri (ITA) | Master Student, 2023-2024
Elisabetta De Gasperi (ITA) | Master Student, 2023-2024