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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.
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