Eliana Ruggiero

Eliana Ruggiero received her Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 2013, trained at the laboratory of Christof von Kalle/Manfred Schmidt, where she focused on the characterization of the TCR repertoire by high-throughput sequencing. In 2015, she joined Chiara Bonini’s lab at Ospedale San Raffaele (Milan) with the aim of identifying new tumor-specific TCRs for T cell engineering. Her work resulted in 32 publications and 6 patents. Her research has been supported by national and international fundings (Italian Ministry of Health, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, iCARE-AIRC, Helmholtz Alliance Immunotherapy of Cancer) and awards (ASGCT Excellence in Research Award, WIC-SITC Young Investigator Award).