Sharmila Fagoonee, Phd
Biotechnology
University of Turin
Italy
Biography
Sharmila Fagoonee is a Researcher at the Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging of the Italian National Research Council at Molecular Biotechnology Center in Turin, Italy. After her BSc (hons) in Biology at Mauritius and MSc in Cellular Biology at Bordeaux, France, she got her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Turin. She also holds a MSc in Molecular Biotechnology. During her PhD, she worked on heme and iron metabolism in mouse models of liver diseases.
Research Interest
After a period at BIDMC, Harvard, Boston, she shifted to study the differentiative capacity of mouse pluripotent spermatogonial stem cells in vitroand in vivo. Using bioinformatics analysis, she identified new pluripotency- and stemness-related genes in pluripotent stem cells. She is currently interested in human stem cells-based therapy for liver diseases and in studying the mechanisms leading to and in developing new biomarkers for liver fibrosis.
