Venturina Stagni’s interests are focused on the study of signal transduction pathways in cancer and neurodegenerative disease. During her PhD studies and post-doc (laboratory headed by Prof. Daniela Barilà) she studied signal transduction induced by ATM kinase contributing to characterizing new roles of ATM kinase in cell death signalling pathway, in hypoxia pathway, and in the ubiquitin-dependent pathway. In collaboration with Dr. Flavio Maina (IBDML, Marseille, France), she investigated the molecular mechanism involved in aberrant Receptor Tyrosine Kinase-induced signal transduction during tumor development. She gained two grants from Italian Ministry of Health, on molecular mechanisms involved in cancer progression and resistance to therapies.