Federica Ungaro

After completing her bachelor's in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Bari, she obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. In 2014 she transferred to Humanitas Research Hospital as a post-doc, focusing on the gut microbiota as involved in IBD pathogenesis and on pro-resolving lipid mediators as beneficial in treating intestinal inflammation. She is currently the research group leader at San Raffaele Hospital and Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in the Experimental Gastroenterology Laboratory. Her current lines of research exploit NGS and -omics science to unveil and demonstrate the mechanisms underlying intestinal inflammation pathogenesis.