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Prof. Stefanini was born in La Spezia (Italy) on the 18th of October 1980 and in 2004 she graduated in Biology at the University of Pavia. After completing her PhD in Biochemistry (University of Pavia), in 2008 she moved to the United States for her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Professor Wolfgang Bergmeier, first at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia (2008-2011) and later at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2011-2012). In 2013 she obtained independent funding through a highly regarded EHA-ISTH Joint Fellowship and started an independent research career first at the at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2012-2013) and then at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom (2013-2015). As winner of the Program for Young Researchers Rita Levi Montalcini , in 2016 she joined the Sapienza University of Rome and in 2019 she became Associate Professor in Applied Biology in the Department of Translational and Precision Medicine. She is also Associate Faculty Member of the Faculty of 1000 and peer-reviewer for several journals in the thrombosis and hemostasis field.

Prof. Stefanini has an internationally-recognized expertise in the study of platelet biology. She was the first woman to receive the Kenneth M. Brinkhous Young Investigator Prize for the study of thrombosis (ATVB 2013, Orlando, USA), she received for three consecutive times the Young Investigator Award of the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH) and at the 2015 ISTH Congress her study on the role of the protein RASA3 in platelets was mentioned as one of the major basic science breakthroughs of the field. In the past 5 years she applied her expertise to understand the crosstalk between platelets and immunity in a more clinical setting. Along this translational trajectory her lab has developed advanced flow cytometry, molecular and bioinformatics approaches to phenotype platelets of patients with sterile and infectious inflammatory disease and dissect the underlying platelet signaling.