Francesca Pala, Ph.D.

Visiting Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., Pasteur Institute, Paris

Portrait of Francesca Pala, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Pala obtained her bachelor's degree and master's degree in cellular, molecular and medical biotechnologies from the San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy. She did her Ph.D. at Pasteur Institute in Paris, where she studied the metabolic pathways controlling skeletal muscle stem cells’ behavior in muscle homeostasis and regeneration. After that, she joined the IDGS, where her research focuses on characterizing thymic epithelial cells in murine models of immunodeficiency and human subjects.