Affiliation: National Research Council of Italy (CNR) - Institute for Biomedical Technologies (ITB); Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Center for Genomic Science – CGS@SEMM

Dr. Roberto Giambruno is a researcher of the Institute for Biomedical Technologies (ITB) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and of the Center for Genomic Science –CGS@SEMM of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). His research interest focuses on protein-protein interactions, protein-RNA interactions, post-transcriptional, and post-translational modifications. His research interests also include long noncoding RNA, mass spectrometry-based affinity purification approaches, and nanopore sequencing.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Palermo in 2005. Then, he moved to Rome at the University “La Sapienza” where he completed his master’s degree in Genetic and Molecular Biology in 2008. At the end of 2008, he started as a PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Giulio Superti-Furga at the Center of Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna where he was enrolled in the Molecular Signal Transduction Programme at the Medical University of Vienna. In 2014, he completed his PhD studies and moved back to Italy where he joined the laboratory of Davide Gabellini at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute within the San Raffaele International Postdoctoral Programme – Marie Curie Actions. In 2017, he won a 3-year scientist position within the Italian PhDiTalents national programme at the European Institute of Oncology - IEO in the laboratory of Tiziana Bonaldi. From April 2020 to January 2022, he joined as a postdoctoral fellow at the laboratory of Dr. Francesco Nicassio at the CGS@SEMM of IIT in Milan. Starting from February 2022 he started his career as a researcher at the ITB of CNR.