University of Pisa
Department of Translational Research and of New Surgical and Medical Technologies
Dr. Andrea Stoccoro is a Research Fellow in Medical Genetics at the Department of Translational Research and of New Surgical and Medical Technologies at the University of Pisa (Italy). He holds a master’s degree in Neurobiology, a specialization’s degree in Clinical Pathology, and a PhD degree in Genetics, Oncology and Clinical Medicine. His research activity is focused on the role of genetic and epigenetic variations in the aetiology of human disorders, including cancer, obesity, myasthenia gravis, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Congenital myotonic dystrophy type 1 and neurodegenerative diseases. During his PhD program he started to focus his research activity on the study of the methylation status of mitochondrial DNA (mitoepigenetics) in individuals suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Dr. Andrea Stoccoro is co-author of 30 articles in peer-reviewed Journals indexed in the PubMed database, and has participated as a speaker in several national and international meetings/congresses. He participated to numerous funded research projects, and is currently involved as co-investigator in a project aimed at integrating functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) and salivary DNA methylation data for the identification of multi-dimensional underpinnings in autism spectrum disorder.