{"id":40611,"date":"2025-10-17T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hunimed.eu\/?post_type=member&#038;p=40611"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:02:31","slug":"letizia-straniero","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/www.hunimed.eu\/it\/member\/letizia-straniero\/","title":{"rendered":"Letizia Straniero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-hunimed-tabs-content hunimed-tabs-content-block\"><div class=\"tabs-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-hunimed-tabs-content-tab tabs-content-tab\"><div class=\"tab-item\" data-tab-title=\"Biosketch\"><div class=\"tab-header\"><button class=\"tab-nav\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\"><span class=\"tab-title\">Biosketch<\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p><strong>Formazione<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2017:<\/strong> Dottorato in Biologia Molecolare e Cellulare presso l\u2019Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014 &#8211; 2017:<\/strong> Dottoranda, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano e Humanitas Research Center<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014 &#8211; 2014:<\/strong> Dottoranda presso il Centre of Applied Neurogenetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012 &#8211; 2013:<\/strong> Ricercatore laureato, Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013:<\/strong> Laurea Magistrale in Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Molecolare presso l\u2019Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011:<\/strong> Laurea Triennale in Biotecnologie Mediche presso l\u2019Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Incarichi Accademici<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Presente:<\/strong> Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2022 &#8211; presente:<\/strong> Visiting scientist presso il Laboratorio di Transcriptome Technology, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Giappone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017 &#8211; 2024:<\/strong> Ricercatore post-dottorato, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Humanitas University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022 &#8211; 2022:<\/strong> Ricercatore post-dottorato presso il Laboratorio di Transcriptome Technology, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Giappone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Premi e Onorificenze<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2024: <\/strong>PI SPRINT-PD project (Grant FRRB EARLY CAREER AWARD, for 3 years, 500.000\u20ac)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021:<\/strong> JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019:<\/strong> Travel Grant for the 13th European CF Young Investigator Meeting. Paris, France.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018:<\/strong> Post-doctoral Fellowships 2018 award from \u201cFondazione Umberto Veronesi\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017:<\/strong> Travel Grant for the 21<sup>st<\/sup> International Congress of Parkinson\u2019s Disease and Movement Disorders. Vancouver, Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016:<\/strong> Travel Grant for the 1st International Conference in Splicing. Caparica (Lisbon), Portugal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015:<\/strong> ESHG Poster Award, European Human Genetics Conference 2015 (Glasgow, UK) for the presentation of the poster \u201cThe plant cytokine kinetin as a potential therapeutic agent to correct CFTR splicing defects\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015:<\/strong> Travel Grant for the 1th Italian CF Young Investigator Meeting. January 16-17, 2015. Rome, Italy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-hunimed-tabs-content-tab tabs-content-tab\"><div class=\"tab-item\" data-tab-title=\"Ricerca\"><div class=\"tab-header\"><button class=\"tab-nav\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\"><span class=\"tab-title\">Ricerca<\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p>A partire dal dottorato ho perseguito il mio forte interesse per la genetica della malattia di Parkinson (PD), che \u00e8 culminato nella pubblicazione di diversi articoli internazionali nei quali ho chiarito, tra l\u2019altro, il contributo delle varianti genetiche nei geni lisosomiali nella patogenesi del PD. In linea con questo interesse, che ha caratterizzato la mia carriera successiva, ho trascorso un periodo di ricerca presso l\u2019Universit\u00e0 della British Columbia (Canada) nel laboratorio del Dr. Farrer per occuparmi dell\u2019analisi di dati derivanti dal sequenziomento di esomi, e successivamente sei mesi presso il RIKEN (laboratorio del Dr. Carninci, Giappone), dove ho appreso come caratterizzare le ricombinazioni somatiche mediate da elementi ripetuti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nel 2018 ho ottenuto una borsa di studio dalla Fondazione Veronesi, con la quale ho sviluppato con successo una PCR allelica multiplex a basso costo per lo screening rapido di circa 12.000 individui. Recentemente, ho avviato un progetto volto a caratterizzare una coorte unica di gemelli monozigoti discordanti per PD, con l\u2019obiettivo di identificare profili genomici, trascrittomici ed epigenetici che possano anticipare la diagnosi della malattia e rivelare nuovi fattori o processi biologici in grado di modificarne la suscettibilit\u00e0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inoltre, grazie al finanziamento FRRB (progetto SPRINT-PD), sto attivamente studiando le ricombinazioi somatiche e il ruolo dell\u2019infiammazione al fine di promuovere nuovi approcci diagnostici e terapeutici per la malattia di Parkinson.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-hunimed-tabs-content-tab tabs-content-tab\"><div class=\"tab-item\" data-tab-title=\"Pubblicazioni\"><div class=\"tab-header\"><button class=\"tab-nav\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\"><span class=\"tab-title\">Pubblicazioni<\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hop PJ, Lai D, Keagle PJ, Baron DM, Kenna BJ, Kooyman M, Shankaracharya, Halter C, <strong>Straniero L<\/strong>, Asselta R, Bonvegna S, Soto-Beasley AI; Project MinE ALS Sequencing Consortium; Wszolek ZK, Uitti RJ, Isaias IU, Pezzoli G, Ticozzi N, Ross OA, Veldink JH, Foroud TM, Kenna KP, Landers JE. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38858457\/\">Systematic rare variant analyses identify RAB32 as a susceptibility gene for familial Parkinson&#8217;s disease<\/a>. Nat Genet. 2024 Jun 10. doi: 10.1038\/s41588-024-01787-7.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Straniero L<\/strong>, Rimoldi V, Monfrini E, Bonvegna S, Melistaccio G, Lake J, Sold\u00e0 G, Aureli M, Shankaracharya, Keagle P, Foroud T, Landers JE, Blauwendraat C, Zecchinelli A, Cilia R, Di Fonzo A, Pezzoli G, Duga S, Asselta R. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35262230\/\">Role of Lysosomal Gene Variants in Modulating GBA-Associated Parkinson&#8217;s Disease Risk<\/a>. Mov Disord. 2022 Mar 9. doi: 10.1002\/mds.28987.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Straniero L<\/strong>, Asselta R, Bonvegna S, Rimoldi V, Sold\u00e0 G, Aureli M, Della Porta M, Lucca U, Di Fonzo A, Zecchinelli A, Pezzoli G, Cilia R, Duga S. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33209983\/\">The SPID- GBA Study: The Largest Monocentric Study on Sex Distribution, Penetrance, Incidence, and Association with Dementia of GBA Mutations in Parkinson&#8217;s Disease<\/a>. Neurol Genet. 2020. Neurol Genet. 2020. Oct 20;6(6):e523.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Straniero L<\/strong>, Rimoldi V, Melistaccio G, Di Fonzo A, Pezzoli G, Duga S, Asselta R. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32987361\/\">A rapid and low-cost test for screening the most common Parkinson&#8217;s disease-related GBA variants<\/a>. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2020 Sep 22;80:138-141.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Straniero L<\/strong>, Guella I, Cilia R, Parkkinen L, Rimoldi V, Young A, Asselta R, Sold\u00e0 G, Sossi V, Stoessl AJ, Priori A, Nishioka K, Hattori N, Follett J, Rajput A, Blau N, Pezzoli G, Farrer MJ, Goldwurm S, Rajput AH, Duga S. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/28892570\/\">DNAJC12 and dopa-responsive non-progressive Parkinsonism<\/a>. Ann Neurol. 2017 Oct;82(4):640-646.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":32799,"template":"","departaments":[360],"roles":[214],"class_list":["post-40611","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","departament-genetica-medica-4","role-ricercatore-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Letizia Straniero - Hunimed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Biosketch Formazione 2017: Dottorato in Biologia Molecolare e Cellulare presso l\u2019Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano 2014 - 2017: Dottoranda, Universit\u00e0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hunimed.eu\/it\/member\/letizia-straniero\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letizia Straniero - 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