Flora Cimmino

Flora Cimmino was born in Naples, Italy on the 8th of March 1981. She received the Ph.D. degree in molecular oncology and postgraduate education in Medical Genetics residency school, from the University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy. She has been a Visiting Researcher with the University of Essen-Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany for one year and since 2013, she is a Researcher with Fondazione Umberto Veronesi. She is a Senior Postdoc with an extensive experience in cancer genetic/genomic field. Her research interest focuses on coding and non-coding somatic variants identification by the use of high-throughput methodology (WES, WGS) and CRISPR-Cas9 editing. In the last years she is extending her scientific interest in liquid biopsy field, particularly ctDNA sequencing from plasma of adult and pediatric cancer patients.