Dr. Francesca De Falco works at detached section of Area Science Park, named “Laboratory of Multi-omics AREA SUD (LAAS)”, located at the University of Salerno. She holds a master’s degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies, thesis in molecular biology, and a PhD in Biotechnology. She was awarded with two postdoc fellowship, each of two years: the first funded by CEINGE on the proteomics of fusion proteins involved in leukemia and the second funded by the Telethon Foundation on cystic fibrosis.
She has published 38 papers in scientific journals on topics concerning diagnosis and research on rare hereditary genetic diseases (choroideremia, lamellar ichthyosis etc), antitumor arising from cisplatin, anti-inflammatory inhibitors of transcription factor NF-κB, delivery of drugs with nanoparticles. Finally, in recent years has acquired expertise in the veterinary field on papilloma virus (in particular cattle, sheep and goat), Leishmania Virus, and Nocardia crassostreae bacteria.