ERC: Giulia Pasqual

Giulia Pasqual completed her MSc in Medical Biotechnology at the University of Padua in 2007 and obtained a PhD in Life Sciences from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2011. From 2012 to 2018 she was a postdoctoral fellow first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later at the Rockefeller University, USA. During this period, she was awarded several international research fellowships, including the Swiss National Science Foundation Mobility Fellowship, the Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship and the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship. Her scientific achievements have been recognized by the Career Development Award from the Rockefeller University (2017) and by the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation (finalist, 2018). In 2019 she established her independent research laboratory at the University of Padua thanks to the Young Investigator Program "Rita Levi Montalcini" granted by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research. In 2019 she was also awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project SYNVIVO (2020-2025) to develop innovative technologies to track interactions between antigen-presenting cells and T cells. Since then her group is active in the context of immunology, tumor immunology and technology development applied to these areas.