Francesca Gilli
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, USA
Biography
Francesca Gilli, received her MS in Medical Biotechnology and PhD in Human Biology from the University of Torino (Italy). She then completed her postdoctoral research in neuroimmunology at University of Torino (Italy), University of Basel (Switzerland), and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (USA). She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Neurology at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, where she works as a basic scientist. Her research focuses on attempting to understand the basic biology of neuroinflammation, demyelination and neuronal injury in Multiple Sclerosis. She has published more than 37 papers in peer-reviewed journals including 23 as main author.