Francesca D’addio, MD

Head of Preclinical Research, Founder

Francesca has been Assistant Professor in Endocrinology at the University of Milan since 2016.

She obtained her medical degree and residency in Nephrology from the University of Bologna, and joined an exchange PhD program in Nephrology and Transplant Immunology at the Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). After a 2-year fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Transplant Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital, Francesca moved to Italy and joined the Transplantation division at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. In 2013, a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Medicine brought Francesca back to Boston where she joined Prof. Fiorina’s lab at Boston Children’s Hospital.