Team - Laboratorio di Endocrinologia Pediatrica

Responsabile del Laboratorio di Ricerca della SOS di Endocrinologia e Diabetologia Pediatrica: Dott.ssa Maria Elisabeth Street
Coordinatore delle attività del Laboratorio: Dott.ssa Francesca Cirillo
Dottoranda di Ricerca, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia: Dott.ssa Cecilia Catellani
Tirocinio Laurea Magistrale in Biotecnologie, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia: Rossella Giampà

Il Laboratorio ospita tirocinanti per le lauree di biologia e biotecnologie.

L'attività di ricerca si svolge in collaborazione con lo staff medico ed in particolare con il Dott. P. Lazzeroni, la Dott.ssa Chiara Sartori, la dott.ssa Anna Lasagni e la Dott.ssa Annalisa Zini e con il personale infermieristico del Day Hospital della SOC di Pediatria. 
 

Maria E. Street (MD, PhD) graduated in Medicine at the University of Parma in 1992, qualified as paediatrician in 1996 and earned her PhD in paediatric gastro-endocrinology in 2000 at the same University. In 2004 she obtained  a Master’s Degree in “Management of Endocrine and nutritional Disorders”. She worked as research fellow in 1994, 1997, 1998 and 1999 in London, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Depts of Endocrinology, Division of Paediatric Endocrinology and Growth Factor Laboratory. Before and after these periods she worked in the Department of Paediatrics of the University Hospital in Parma. Since September 2014 she is head of the Division of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology in Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova – IRCCS, Reggio Emilia. She has participated and supervised National and International research projects, presented in National and International Meetings, has tutored thesis for master’s and graduate degrees, is an author of many research papers.
 

Francesca Cirillo (PhD) achieved her Master’s Degree in Medical Biotechnology in 2009 and earned her PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Federico II University of Napoli in 2013. During her PhD training she worked as a research fellow at the Biomedicum Institute of Helsinki on Mass spectrometry analysis conducting experiments on protein immuno-precipitated samples for interactome analysis. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova – IRCCS (Research Institute) in Reggio Emilia and is currently working on molecular mechanisms in paediatric endocrinological diseases focusing her traslational research on growth disorders, polycystic ovarian syndrome, insulin resistance, Turner syndrome using both genomic and proteomic approaches.
 

Cecilia Catellani (PhD Student) obtained her Bachelor Degree in Biology at the University of Parma in 2014, where she attended a training project concerning food allergens with a genomic approach, and achieved her Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology at the same University in 2017. She is currently working as a research fellow under the supervision of Dr. M.E. Street at the Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova-IRCCS (Research Institute), Reggio Emilia studying the role of miRNAs in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases.