Seminar topic: Understanding the bone microenvironment during bone regeneration: decisive early crosstalk between blood vessels and skeletal stem/progenitor cells in healthy and fibrotic conditions

Giada completed her PhD at the University of Milano-Bicocca in collaboration with the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milan, where she studied therapeutic strategies for the rare lysosomal disorder Mucopolysaccharidosis type I. She then continued there as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on rare infantile diseases and investigating approaches to preserve the bone marrow niche and treat immune dysregulation and lysosomal storage disorders with skeletal manifestations.

In 2024, she joined Céline Colnot’s laboratory at IMRB (Créteil) and was awarded an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to lead the CROSSBONE project, which investigates how newly forming blood vessels and nerves shape the skeletal stem/progenitor cell niche during early bone repair, with implications for fibrosis-associated bone disorders.

Join us to discuss and exchange ideas regarding Giada’s research!

If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please reach
out to laura.salavessa@inserm.fr or claire.leveau@inserm.fr 

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