Maria Rescigno

Biography

Maria Rescigno is full professor at Humanitas University and scientific director of CeMM in Vienna. She worked at the University of Cambridge, UK, in the Department of Biochemistry, and from 2001 to 2017 she has been the director of the Dendritic cell biology and immunotherapy Unit at the Department of Experimental Oncology at the European Institute of oncology. She authored more than 250 publications in high impact journals. She was elected EMBO young investigator in 2007 and in 2011 EMBO member. In 2008-2013 she was visiting professor at the University of Oslo. She has been the recipient of three ERC grants. From 2019 she is member and from 2024 chair of the EMBO council. She has received several awards including the Pezcoller-Marina Larcher Fogazzaro-EACR Women in Cancer Research Award (2024).

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