IFOM Stefano Piccolo Lab

Stefano Piccolo Lab

Stefano Piccolo

Stefano Piccolo

Stefano Piccolo was born in 1967, in Italy. He obtained his MSc in Biology (1991) and his Ph.D (1995) from the University of Padua, where he worked under Giorgio Bressan on the regulation and function of the extracellular matrix proteins.

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Tissue biology and tumorigenesis

In living organs, cells are in intimate contact with each other and with their microenvironment. Within tissues, cells display remarkable, and yet mysterious, “social” behaviors. Prominent examples are the ability of cells to stop proliferating (i.e., of making copies of themselves) when they start touching each other; to change their destiny to accommodate tissue needs; or to self-organize into new tissue during the repair of damaged organs. Healthy tissues can also recognize individual tumor cells and either eliminate them or "normalize" their behavior, as such taming the effect of oncogenic mutations.

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Laboratory location: Padua, Italy

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Group members

Francesca Zanconato
Tito Panciera
Luca Azzolin
Michelangelo Cordenonsi

(update: May 2018)