Francesca Amicarella
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Cancer
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Netherlands
Biography
She obtained her masters degree in Medical Biotechnology at the University of Florence. she then moved to Basel, where she started her PhD training at the cancer immunotherapy laboratory of the Department of Biomedicine. During these years, she studied the impact of IL-17-releasing CD4+ T cells in human colorectal cancer.Due to her strong interest in tumor immunology, she decided to join Ton Schumacher's group on a Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship.
Research Interest
Her current research aims to improve our understanding of the role played by different T cell subsets in immune responses that develop in human colorectal cancer.
