Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale

Currently, Giulia Fiscon is Assistant Professor (RTD-A) in Bioengineering (ING-INF/06) at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG) of Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a degree summa cum laude in Biomedical Engineering at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome in 2012 and a PhD in Engineering in Computer Science with classification: excellent at DIAG of Sapienza University of Rome in 2016. From the end of 2015 to Sept 2020, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the bioinformatics and system biology group of the Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science “A. Ruberti” of National Research Council in Rome. From Sept 2020 to Sept 2021, she was a research collaborator at Foundation for Personalized Medicine (FMP) and from Sept 2021 to Nov 2021 she was a post-doctoral researcher at DIAG of Sapienza University of Rome. 

In 2014, she won the Sapienza University Starting Research Project about the development of algorithms to analyze the secondary structures of RNA molecules. In 2015, she won the F1000 Research Fellowship for the oral presentation at 11th ISCB Student Council Symposium 2015 of ISMB/ECCB 2015, Dublin (Irland). In 2016 she won the Best Poster Award 2016 of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computational LifeScience Society (TCCLS) and in 2018 the Best poster award 2018 of Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS) . She was member of the Program Committee of IEEE BIBM’18 Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Large Scale Network Analysis in Systems Biology and of “the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithm” - BIOINFORMATICS 2017-2020. From 2020, she is Member of GNB – National Bioengineering Group. From 2015-2018 she was member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Regional Student Group - Italy and of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences (TCCLS). 

She is editor for Scientific Reports international journal (section: biomedical engineering), for Current Issues in Molecular Biology international journal (section: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology), and for Computational And Mathematical Methods In Medicine international journal. She also belongs to the Editorial Board of Bioengineered  and Elsevier Biotechnology reports international journals. She served also as reviewer for several peer-review journals and she in in the reviewer borad of Genes and Sensors journals. 

Her research interests are in the area of biological complex system study. In particular, she works in the field of bioinformatics, computational biology, and network medicine. She is author of 59 international publications, cited more than 1400 times and her h-index is 21, according to Scopus database.

She achieved the National Scientific qualification (ASN) as associate professor for the disciplinary field of 09/G2 - Bioengineering and of 06/N1 - Technology and methodology in medicine and nursing sciences.

Research projects:

2022 Progetto Ricerca Finalizzata 2021 (Progetti ordinari giovani ricercatori (GR) change promoting):

• ROLE: Responsabile di unità locale
• TITLE: Academic, open label, phase I clinical trial on the use of fresh, allogeneic CD19-CAR T cells for treatment of children with relapsed/refractory B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• GRANT NUMBER: GR-2021-12372614
• ENTE FINANZIATORE: Ministero della Salute, Italy
• PROJECT DURATION: 36 months
• FROM-TO: 30/04/2023–1/05/2026
• FINANCING: 64460 EUR

2022 KI Network Medicine Global Alliance (KI NMA) grant:

• ROLE: Responsabile di unità locale
• TITLE: Network-based analysis to identify novel therapeutic target for the hepatocellular carcinoma
• GRANT NUMBER: H555301283
• ENTE FINANZIATORE: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
• PROJECT DURATION: 12 months
• FROM-TO: 26/10/2022–26/10/2023
• FINANCING: 105’000 SEK (almost 10’000 EUR)
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2022 Research Project from Sapienza University of Rome (Progetti di Ateneo 2022):

• ROLE: Principal Investigator
• TITLE: A network-based approach for in-silico identification of drug-repurposing opportunities for the treatment of neurological diseases
• GRANT NUMBER: RP12218139131053
• ENTE FINANZIATORE: Sapienza University of Rome
• PROJECT DURATION: 24 months
• FROM-TO: 22/12/2022–22/12/2024
• FINANCING: 3167 EUR

2014 Starting Research Project from Sapienza University of Rome:

• ROLE: principal investigator
• PROJECT TITLE: Development of algorithms to analyze the secondary structures of RNA Molecules
• PROTOCOL NUMBER: Prot. n. 0042358 del 15/07/2014 (bando n. 0019665-31/03/2014, modello n. C26N14FWH2
• PROJECT DURATION: 12 months
• From-to: 15/07/2014–15/07/2015
• Financing: 1500 EUR