I received my undergraduate and master degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Polito) in Italy, followed by a Ph.D in Bioengineering for a joint project between Polito, MIT, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). My current projects in collaboration with Barbie Lab (DFCI) and Chiarle Lab focus on developing physiologically relevant 3-D vascularized cancer models using microfluidic devices to study the biological interactions between endothelial cells and cancer spheroids, and the mechanisms of immune cell infiltration and cell immunotherapies into the tumor microenvironment. I am also interested in developing polymer nanoparticles as carriers for immunotherapies and cancer treatments.