Dr. Bonacina is Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Milan (Italy). She obtained the PhD at the University of Milan working on inflammation in cardiometabolic diseases, then she moved to the Cardiovascular Immunology Lab at the Queen Mary University of London, where she investigated Tcell activation under dyslipidemia.
Combining the expertise on lipid metabolism and immune response, the goal of her current research is to identify novel molecular targets to prevent immune-inflammatory activation in cardio-metabolic diseases taking advantage from humanized models.
Dr. Bonacina received inter/and national awards and grants (Cariplo and Roche Foundations, Ministry of University and Research) for her work and is OC member of the European Lipoprotein Club.
Area of expertise: dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, adaptive immune response and T lymphocytes
