Led by Paola Scaffidi, we're a group at at IEO (Milan) and the Francis Crick Institute (London) and interested in epigenetics and cancer. 🧬🧪👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Milan, Italy
Joined December 2018
We are on Bluesky at @scaffidilab.bsky.social - follow us there
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Registration open. Top-notch lineup of speakers from Europe, the US and beyond, covering chromatin biology, genome maintenance, cancer plasticity and evolution, and metabolism atoutcom.com/cancer-epigenet…
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Registration open. Top-notch lineup of speakers from Europe, the US and beyond, covering chromatin biology, genome maintenance, cancer plasticity and evolution, and metabolism atoutcom.com/cancer-epigenet…
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Histone acetylation - not always about transcriptional activation: H4K16ac safeguards the genome replication program by repressing premature replication of heterochromatin. Well done Marta Milan! tinyurl.com/yuy9m8t3
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Beautiful work!
Our work "Aquarius helicase facilitates HIV-1 integration into R-loop enriched genomic regions," is out in @NatureMicrobiol nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Two PhD positions available in our lab to study #chromatin, #epigenetics and cancer
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🚨 New meeting this fall in Brussels! 🚨 Cutting-edge science, amazing colleagues, & a RARE career development workshop for trainees-covering pharma, consulting, writing, start-ups & more 🤩 #epigenetics2025 Registration is open!! @epicypher @FuksLab xcellsconferences.com/epigen…
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We are very grateful to @fondaz_veronesi for awarding our Ruba Al Khalaf a research fellowship to pursue her work on epigenetic dysregulation in cancer. Many thanks to Fondazione Veronesi and all those who support scientific research! #UnNuovoAnnovoDiRicerca #Fondazioneveronesi
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One PhD position available in our Lab
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Congratulations @alegiulss !! Excellent job at defending your thesis
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Exciting postdoctoral opportunity to work on a EU-funded collaborative study aimed at identifying epigenetic determinants of drug tolerance in cancer. Stellar collaborators @VallotCeline @ShemaEfrat @BonaldiTiziana Plass/Gerhäuser @DKFZ & Balazs Gyorffy
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Exciting postdoctoral opportunity to work on a EU-funded collaborative study aimed at identifying epigenetic determinants of drug tolerance in cancer. Stellar collaborators @VallotCeline @ShemaEfrat @BonaldiTiziana Plass/Gerhäuser @DKFZ & Balazs Gyorffy
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Siamo felici di comunicarvi che Paola Scaffidi, Senior Group Leader del Dipartimento di Oncologia Sperimentale IEO, è stata eletta nuovo membro dell’European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Congratulazioni e i migliori auguri di buon lavoro! 💙
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Thank you @EMBO - delighted to join this fantastic network! Thanks to everyone who has accompanied me in my scientific journey - mentors and mentees, colleagues, friends and family who share the ups and downs of research @IEOufficiale @Crick
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