Elisabetta Citterio

Biography

After her PhD in DNA repair at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a postdoc at IFOM, Milan, on chromatin ubiquitination, in 2006 she joined the NKI. Here, she expanded her expertise in the direction of mouse models for cancer and stem cell biology. In 2008, she was awarded a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), which allowed her to establish her research line.

Research Interest

The focus of her research is to understand how human cells counteract DNA damage and maintain the integrity of their genome, a condition that is crucial in preventing cancer. In particular, they are studying how the packaging of DNA into chromatin regulates DNA damage signalling/repair and how deregulation of such mechanisms impacts on tumorigenesis and on stem cell maintenance.