Stefania Fulle
Dept Neuroscience Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Italy
- Orcid: 0000-0003-4557-9127
- Publications: 118
- Citations: 3620
- Keywords: sarcopenia, stem cells, oxidative stress, tissue regeneration, miR
Short Bio
- She is graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Perugia. Since 1985 she has participated in the Ministry of Education and the CNR research programs. From 1988 to 1991 she was a research fellow at the CNR Institute of Neurobiology in Rome (previously directed by Rita Levi-Montalcini). She then returned to the University of Perugia where, from 1997, her field of research shifted to the effects of ageing in human skeletal muscle, where she studied the role of oxidative stress. In 2001, she became Associate Professor in Physiology at the G.d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara (Ud'A), where she became Full Professor in 2011. In addition to having frequented various laboratories in Italy during her training, in 2002 she spent time as a visiting scientist at the CNRS 7000 unit and in 2004 at the INSERM U 546 unit of the Faculté de Medicine Pitié-Salpétriér of the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, where she acquired expertise in the study of human adult muscle stem cells. Indeed, her field of interest, remaining in the area of muscle senescence and consequent atrophy, turned from then on mainly to understanding the role of adult muscle stem cells in muscle regeneration, and on this line of research she obtained several grants from MIUR and ASI. In 2017, as PI of the MyoGravity project funded by ASI, in July-August she is a visiting researcher at the International Space Station Processing Facility, Kennedy Space Center, of NASA in Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA), and in December at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas (USA). Since 2016 she has been a student tutor for the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA). Since 2007 she has been in charge of the Cellular Physiology laboratories at Ud'A. From 2011 to 2016 she is coordinator of the PhD course in Basic and Applied Medical Sciences and since 2017 of the PhD course in Medical Biotechnology.
