Research Scientists

Anna Tessari, MD
Anna.Tessari@osumc.edu
Studies synthetic molecular approaches to inhibit the biogenesis of microRNAs with oncogenic properties.
Evaluates Nucleolin as a target for the treatment of different malignancies

Federica Calore, PhD
Federica.Calore@osumc.edu
Investigates the role of Extracellular Vesicles in cancer-associated muscle atrophy (cachexia syndrome) and in liposarcoma.
Studies the role of secreted long non-coding-RNAs in breast cancer.

Francesca Lovat, PhD
Francesca.Lovat@osumc.edu
Studies on the role of two different loci of miR-15/16 in the pathogenesis of human chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia.

Giovanni Nigita, PhD
Giovanni.Nigita@osumc.edu
Supervises biostatistics and bioinformatics analyses.
Designs biological databases and computational tools.
Studies non-coding RNAs and Epitranscriptomics events (RNA editing and methylation) as tools for cancer diagnosis and therapy.

Nicola Zanesi, PhD
Nicola.Zanesi@osumc.edu
Examines single and compound transgenic/knockout mouse models to study protein-coding gene and microRNA dysregulation in leukemia and solid cancers.
Contributes to other projects on murine cell biochemistry and human cancers using immunocompromised mice.

Ri Cui, MD, PhD
Ri.Cui@osumc.edu
Examines chromosome abnormalities and what role these abnormalities play in the pathogenesis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Taewan Kim, PhD
Taewan.Kim@osumc.edu
Investigates the role of EGFR-interacting long noncoding RNAs in EGFR activity and EGFR-targeting therapy

Tatsuya Nakamura, MD, PhD
Tatsuya.Nalamura@osumc.edu
Studies the role of post-translational modifications of the histone demethylase JMJD1C/KDM3C in cancer. Study the genetic of leukemia by designing innovative probes for the analysis of chromosomal aberration.

Zhenghua Luo, PhD
Zhenghua.Luo@osumc.edu
Study the role of a point mutation on mBAFF-R and the synergistic effects of miR-155 and mBAFF-R/mBAFF-Rmut in B cell biogenesis/maturation and cancer pathogenesis.