Viola Bianca Serio, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Siena (IT). After her Master's degree in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Florence, and a research fellowship at the Medical Genetics Unit at Meyer Hospital (Florence), she carried out a PhD project strictly related to the usefulness of cfDNA-Liquid Biopsy for the molecular characterization of advanced solid tumors with insight into a personalized medicine approach at the University of Siena obtaining the title of Doctor Europaeus with excelent cum laude. During her PhD program she spent months at the ICR of Sutton (UK) and at the UCL (London-UK), where she also covered enzymatic methyl sequencing (EMS), but also whole-genome and targeted sequencing on gDNA and cfDNA. She also approached the exosome RNA-sequencing starting from plasma samples. She's focusing on cfDNA WES on advanced cancer patients in order to identify targetable targets for a personalised medicine approach.
Post Doctoral Researcher
University of Siena, Siena, Italy
01 Dec 2024 - 01 Mar 2026