Valentina Alda Carozzi

2005: graduation in Medical Biotechnology (110/110 cum laude)
2008: PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Milan Bicocca with a project focused on the role of glutamate in the pathology of the peripheral nervous system.
From 2008 to 2017: post-doc position on in vivo research in the field of peripheral neuropathies.
2010-2014: Visiting researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
From 2017: Assistant Professor of Histology (BIO17) at School of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milan Bicocca
From 2017: Member of the Board for the PhD program in Neuroscience.
From 2024: Associate Professor in Human Anatomy at the University of Milano-Bicocca, School of Medicine and Surgery.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Neurotoxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs: development of in vivo animal models of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy to understand the pathogenesis and to test neuroprotective compounds.
• Implication of vascular modification in neuroparhic pain development and chronicization.
• Involvement of glial cells in the development and chronicization of chemotherapy-induced peripgeral neuropathy.
• Involvement of central pathways in the modulation of neuropathic pain in animal models of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.

SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR PhD PROJECTS

Study of pain modulatory pathways in animal models of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.
Morphofunctional study of vascular network in central and peripheral nervous system pathways in animal models of chronic pain.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Main research collaborations:
Dr. Antonio Zippo, Institute of Neuroscience, CNR, Vedano al Lambro, MB
Dr. Susan Dorsey, Centre on Pain Study, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore (MD), USA.