Federica Franciosi earned her degree in Veterinary Medicine and her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Milan, developing nuclear transfer techniques and studying the interplay between somatic cells and the gamete during oocyte growth. She has been awarded the L’OREAL-UNESCO for Women in Science National Award prize for studies on epigenetic modifications during oocyte maturation conducted in collaboration with the French Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA, Tour), after which she completed a post-doc at the University of California San Francisco in the lab of Marco Conti, supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie international outgoing fellowship. During those years, she studied mechanisms controlling maternal mRNA translation. She received a tenure track position from the University of Milan in 2017 and became Associate Professor in 2021.
ReDBioLab, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences