Gian-Luca Sarra Ferraris

Dipartimento: Sanità - Salute, From January 2007 I started working in I.R.C.C.S Policlinico San Donato. In this place, at the beginning, I managed all the laboratory setting up. I ordered all the powders, the solvents, the molecular biology reagents, disposables and not-desposables equipments; I make all the machineries operative (centrifuges, chemical hood, cell culture hoods, incubators, microscopes, chemidoc, ABI prism 7900 HT fast, electrophoresis apparatuses). After the laboratory start-up period I s

I have completed 18 months of research in the group of Prof. Francesco Blasi at IFOM (Firc Institute for Molecular Oncology), under the direct supervision of Dr. Nicolai Sidenius. During this period, I studied the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) and its receptor (uPAR) and their possible impli