Paola Campese Award
2024
FINALIST
Clarissa Corinaldesi
Columbia University, New York City
I am currently an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Cancer Genetics at Columbia University in New York City. I obtained my bachelor's and master's degrees in Human Biology and Biology of Human Evolution from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2018, I completed my Ph.D. in Integrated Biology of Human Movement and Sport from the University of Rome Foro Italico, during which I spent my final year at the University of Leeds to further explore my interest in immunology, particularly in the realm of autoimmune diseases.
Following my Ph.D., I joined Dr. Riccardo Dalla-Favera's laboratory at Columbia University as a postdoctoral fellow, where I have been researching the pathogenesis of human B-cell lymphomas using advanced technologies, including single-cell transcriptomic analysis. My work has been supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Lymphoma Research Foundation and has resulted in multiple publications in esteemed international peer-reviewed journals.