Lucia Bettedi, Ph.D.

Lucia Bettedi, Ph.D., is a molecular biologist with 15 years of experience developing cell-based tools and state-of-the-art screening approaches to identify molecular targets for treatment of metabolic disorders, age-related metabolic dysfunctions, and cancer. She earned her Ph.D. in Biology of Ageing from University College London (UCL) in the UK in 2015, following a Master of Research (MRes) in Biology of Aging from UCL in 2011. Dr. Bettedi utilized advanced molecular biology techniques and established an in vitro model of pre-diabetic adipocytes during her research at UCL, with her work resulting in publications in EMBO Mol Med, Nature Communication, and Science Reports. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, NIH), using both fruit fly and mammalian cells as model organisms she worked on two major projects, including demonstrating the connection between high TORC1 activity, DNA damage, transposon activation, and genomic stability, which was published in eLife and Developmental Cell. Her scientific expertise encompasses advanced molecular biology techniques, including CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, confocal microscopy, protein expression, and conducting cellular signaling assays.