Team
What's our secret? Great people.
Specialized skills – Competence heterogeneity – Bold vision –
Cohesion and Collaboration – Responsibility
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Mario Napolitano
CEO
Chartered Accountant, Statutory Auditor, Technical Consultant, Delegated Professional and Judicial Custodian, member of the Supervisory Body
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Lucia Altucci
Scientific Director
MD, PhD and professor of General Pathology, more than 20 years of experience and more than 170 scientific publications on epigenetics.
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Gianluigi Franci
Research and Development
PhD, professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology. Head of the Clinical Program: “Advanced diagnostics for microbial resistance”. 3X entrepreneur.
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Carlo Altucci
Research and Development
"PhD, professor of Biomedical Physics and Bio-Photonics specialized in Bionanophotonics (nano-phor.unina.it) and prototyping bio-sensor. For Epi-C has developed an innovative mobile sensor for proper detection of pollutants, applicable to transports and cars"
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Francesco Izzo
Strategy & Marketing
PhD, professor of Strategic Management of Innovation. His research activity is focused on innovation management, growth strategy, entrepreneurship.
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Massimo Mallardo
Research and Development
PhD, post-doctoral at EMBL, Cell Biology program, Heidelberg, Germany, and at Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Protein Evolution Department, Tuebingen, Germany.
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Marco Ferretti
Research and Business Development
Marco Ferretti holds the chair of Corporate Strategy and Innovation Management at Università degli studi di Napoli Parthenope
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Vincenzo Vecchio
Business Development
Engineer, founder and co-founfer of Italian and US-based start-ups, Business Coach for the European Commission, with international project management experience.
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Cinzia Cannizzaro
In charge of planning, management and control and legal aspects. Technical and professional consultant for EU funded projects for public institutions and private companies.
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Rosaria Benedetti
Research and Development
PhD, RTDA, her research interests involve the development of a comprehensive understanding of key developmental pathways and how alterations in gene expression contribute to human disease, in particular cancer.
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Carmela Dell'Aversana
Research and Development
PhD, researcher at CNR, her research is addressed to deciphere cellular dynamics and functional role of many epigenetic and post-translational mechanisms, mainly miRNA, and extracellular vesicle-mediated cellular communications in human disease, mainly in chemoresistant cancers.
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Federica Sarno
Research and Development
PhD, post-doc, her research interests are focused on HTS drug discovery, in particular for KDM4A modulators.
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Mariarosaria Conte
Research and Development
PhD, RTDA, her research is mainly focused the role of chromatin modifiers (in particular histone deacetylases) in carcinogenesis and in immune modulation.
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Francesca Cuomo
Research and Development
Master’s Degree in Medical Biotechnology cum laude, University of Naples, Federico II.
PhD in Translational Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
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Angela Nebbioso
Research and Development
PhD, professor of General Pathology, her pre-clinically oriented research is based both on anticancer epigenetic drug development and on the characterization of the mechanisms of tumorigenesis and leukemogenesis.
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Michele Monna
Sales Manager
Italy’s Sales Manager at Microtech Experiences in sales field and personnel management.