Monica Fedele
Monica Fedele (Naples, 03/23/69) received her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Pathology at the Medical School of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, working in the laboratory of Alfredo Fusco. Then, she was a postdoctoral investigator in the laboratory of Carlo M. Croce, at the Kimmel Cancer Institute in Philadelphia, USA, focusing on the development of transgenic and knockout mice for the HMGA and other related genes. Now she is a group leader at the Istituto di Endocrinologia e Oncologia Sperimentale (IEOS) of the National Council of the Research (CNR) in Italy and her main interest is the role of chromatinic proteins in cancer. Her main scientific achievements are the isolation and characterization of the putative tumor suppressor gene PATZ, the demonstration of the oncogenic activity of the chromatinic proteins HMGA1 and HMGA2 in vitro and in vivo, and the discovery of their critical role in the development of pituitary adenomas.