Francesca Nardi

Francesca grew up in Italy and completed her bachelor's degree in Biotechnology at the University of Bologna and her master’s degree in Medical Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Milan. Then, she moved to the US where she found a research position at NorthShore University Research Institute (Chicago) where she worked under Dr. Susan E. Crawford studying the role of tumor metabolism in prostate cancer development. Now, as a PhD candidate in Dr. Karen Cichowski's laboratory, she is investigating novel combination therapies in KRAS-mutant lung cancers that co-target the RAS/ERK pathway and the eIF4F translation initiation complex.