PAOLA ALBERTI

Dr. PAOLA ALBERTI

University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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MD, PhD, Board in Neurology. Assistant Professor (Human Anat...

Biography

MD, PhD, board in Neurology. She is Assistant Professor in Human Anatomy at University of Milano-Bicocca (Monza, Italy) and Consultant Neurologist at Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori (Monza, Italy). Her expertise is related to peripheral neuropathies, especially chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity (CIPN). She oversees both clinical and preclinical CIPN research projects. At a preclinical level, she has developed a line of research that applies morpho-functional techniques to study axonal damage mechanisms, with particular attention to ion channel dysfunctions. At a clinical level, she is Principal Investigator of national and international studies aimed at investigating various clinical and epidemiological aspects of CIPN: ICAVS (NCT04633655), CIPN COST (NCT04986891) and NEUPER study (NCT05088681). She is currently a member of the board of the Italian Association of Peripheral Neuropathies (ASNP), chair of the junior committee of the Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS) and representative of this committee within the Toxic Neuropathy Consortium of PNS and chair of the neurological complication study group of the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC).

Affiliations

University of Milano-Bicocca

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Honors and Awards

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Premio Giovani Talenti 2020

Accademia dei Lincei/UNIMIB

Personal grant of 2,000 euros as a prize for her studies on CIPN and neurological consequences of COVID-19.

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Bicocca Starting Grant

University of Milano Bicocca

Personal grant as PI (55,000 euros) for the conduction of the CIPN COST project which will assess the socio-economic burden due to CIPN.

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Bicocca Starting Grant

University of Milano-Bicocca

Renoval of the CIPN COST project for a 2nd year (adjunctive budget: 60,000; total amount recevied over 2 years: 115,000).

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Research grant "Ricerca Biomedica condotta da giovani ricercatori 2022"

Fondazione Cariplo

Different Peripheral Neuropathies - genetic, toxic, diabetic and dysimmune - share a final downstream event, axonal damage (AxD), which might result from a common upstream event: ion unbalance. Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) might be pivotal. We aim at ascertaining the role of NCX (primary aim) in the onset of AxD and testing effects of NCX modulation (secondary aim) on AxD development. Total funding: 249,980 euros.

Experience

University Educator/Researcher

University of Milano-Bicocca

01 Apr 2023 - present