Fiorenza Stagni
University of Bologna, Italy
Biography
Fiorenza Stagni obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at University of Bologna, Italy in 2014. She is currently involved as Postdoctoral fellow in an international project aimed at identifying a panel of drugs that may be safely used during pregnancy or in infants in order to counteract the neurodevelopmental defects linked to Down syndrome. In 2016, she was awarded by the Trisomy 21 Research Society for the Best Dissertation in the field of DS defended in 2014-2015. She has published more than 15 papers in the field of preclinical studies for the treatment of cognitive deficits in DS.
Abstract
Abstract : In the search of safe therapies for Down syndrome