Postdoc
Columbia University
Giorgia Zanetti, PhD is a postdoc researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She comes with more than 6 years of experience in mouse models, molecular biology and immunology. She joined Megan Sykes' laboratory in July 2022, where she is working on engineering T cells and regulatory T cells for the treatment of cancer and autoimmunity. During her first postdoc cycle at Weill Cornell Medical College, she developed a project focused on humanized mice with functional human immune system. She established the HuPDTX model with Patient-Derived-Tumor-Xenografts (PDTXs), in which the infiltration of human immune cells in the tumor microenvironment leads this model to be an indispensable tool to investigate novel immunotherapies, and mechanisms of immune surveillance.
She is naturally inclined to translational research, and, above all, she deeply desire to improve the lives of others in a concrete way.
