Projects we fund

About the research team

Dr Vinci is a Principal Investigator at the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, which is a Paediatric Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care performing basic, translational and clinical research activities. Dr Vinci has extensive experience in the establishment of pGBM and DIPG patient primary-derived tumour models in vitro (2D and 3D) and in vivo, strong experience in the molecular cell biology of cancer, and has developed new high-content image-analysis techniques. Her research is hosted in the Department of Haemato-oncology, Gene and Cell Therapy, and in the Onco-haematology Research Laboratory, both directed by Professor Franco Locatelli. The Department plays an active role in the experimental activities and protocols managed by the eagis of the European Consortium ITCC (Innovative Treatment for Children with Cancer), promoting and coordinating numerous phase I, II and III studies. The lab will provide access to infrastructures needed, and more importantly will enable a daily exchange with the clinicians including neuro-oncologists, radiologist, neurosurgeons and pathologist. For this project she has the support from collaborators in the field of paediatric brain tumour research as Professor Chris Jones (The Institute of Cancer Research, UK), Dr Angel Montero Carcaboso (Hospital San Jean de Deu, Spain) and Dr Andrew Moore (Queensland Children’s Tumour Bank, Australia) as well as other scientists in Italy and in the UK.