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PERSONAL DATA 

Name:  Isabella Faraoni

Date/Place of birth:  20-08-1962/Rome, Italy

Citizenship:  Italian

Work address: Via Montpellier, 1, 00133 Rome, Italy

Phone number: +39 06-72596329

e-mail address: faraoni@med.uniroma2.it

EDUCATION

1994 - PhD in Hematology, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Role of the repair enzyme O6-methylguanina-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) in resistance to triazene compounds

1988 - Biology degree, 110 cum laude, University of Rome La Sapienza. Characterization of the lipid content of a national variety of durum wheat and its correlation with mycotoxins formation

POSITION HELD AND SCIENTIFIC CAREER

2023-present - Researcher (RTDB), Dpt. Systems Medicine, Chair of Pharmacology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.  Molecular oncology and cancer pharmacology. - Studies on DNA repair enzymes, telomerase and microRNA in solid and hematological cancer

1999-2023 - Researcher (level D6), Dpt. Systems Medicine, Chair of Pharmacology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. - Molecular oncology and cancer pharmacology

2022-present - Professor, Degree in Midwifery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. - Teaching of Pharmacology

2021-present - Professor, Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University "Our Lady of Good Counsel", Tirana, Albania. - Teaching of Pharmacology

2016-present - Professor, Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. - Teaching of Pharmacotoxicology and Pharmaceutical Galenics

2020-2023 - Professor, MSc Medicine and Surgery (LM-41), Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences, Rome, Italy. - Teaching of Pharmacology

2019-2022 - Professor, Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques, Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences, Rome, Italy. - Teaching of Pharmaceutical Toxicology and Galenic Pharmacology

2008-2019 - Professor, Master Degree in Technical and Diagnostic Health Professions, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. - Teaching of Molecular Pharmacology

2009-2012 - Visiting Scientist, CERC, Fondazione S. Lucia, Rome, Italy. - MicroRNAs in leukemia as tumor markers and as potential new therapeutic agents

1997-1998 - Postdoctoral fellow at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy. - Telomerase activity in primary cancer as a measure of tumor cell killing by drugs

1994 - Postdoctoral fellow at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Bruxelles, Belgium. - Studies on promoter methylation, in particular in the expression of the tumor specific antigen Mage-1

1989-1991 - Fellow, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. - Research on new drugs targeting HTLV-I infected cells

1988 - Fellow, Italian National Institute for Health (ISS), Rome, Italy. - Aflatoxin  B1 and ochratoxin A contamination in food

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LARGE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LABORATORY TECHNIQUES, IN PARTICULAR:

- Column chromatography, thin layer chromatography (TLC), high resolution liquid chromatography (HPLC), liquid gas chromatography (GLC)

- Cell cultures of cell lines and of primary biopsy specimens

- Infections by co-culture with HTLV-I infected cells

- Genomic DNA extraction, Southern blots

- RNA extraction, Northern blots

- Protein extraction, Western blots

- Cellular transfection of genes by calcium-phosphate, electroporation, lipofection

- Cellular infection of genes by retrovirus and / or lentivirus

- Molecular cloning and recombinant DNA techniques

- DNA and RNA amplification by PCR and Real Time-PCR

- Gene sequencing

- Gel electrophoresis mobility shift assay (EMSA)

- Analysis of genomic DNA methylation by Southern blot and nucleotide modification after bisulfite treatment

- Evaluation of telomerase activity using TRAP assay

- Extraction and amplification of microRNAs in real time PCR

- ELISA test

- Immunofluorescence techniques

2021-2022 - Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Clinical Use of Parp Inhibitors in Cancer - From Bench to Bedside and Back Again" on Cancers, open access journal of oncology, published by MDPI (ISSN 2072-6694), 12 scientific papers were published.

2023-present - Member of the editorial board for the 'Pharmacology' section of the journal 'Pharmaceuticals', an open access peer-reviewed journal of medicinal chemistry and related drug sciences, published monthly online by MDPI (ISSN: 1424-8247).

Reviewer for many international scientific journals.

She has participated at many national and international conferences and meetings.

Bibliometry (Scopus): Co-author of 44 full papers on international peer-reviewed journals (first-last author in 19 papers). H–index 21; Citation 2480.

Average impact factor (Clarivate) 7.739; publications first/last author, average impact factor 9.360.

Rome, June 19, 2024                                                                                                      Isabella Faraoninsert here the curriculum

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