Cinzia Emilia Lavarino

Cinzia Lavarino graduated in Biology in 1994 and obtained a Doctor of Biotechnology degree in 1999 from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

Between 1994 and 2001 she was trained at the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory of the Instituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan.

Between 2001-2004 she completed a post-doctoral stay at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona.

In 2005, she joined the post-doctoral researcher at the Development Tumours Laboratory of the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital.

Since 2007 Cinzia Lavarino is Principal Investigator of the Translational Genomics group of the Laboratory of Developmental Tumours, included in the IRSJD Pediatric Cancer Program.

Since the beginning of 2019, Cinzia Lavarino has been a doctor in charge of healthcare activities (molecular diagnosis, prognosis prediction, molecular classification, identification of therapeutic targets, molecular monitoring of the disease) typical of the Molecular Oncology Laboratory of the Paediatric Cancer Center Barcelona (PCCB) of the SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital.