Paola Vignali

Paola Vignali is a PhD student in Clinical Physiopathology at the Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular Pathology and Critical Area, at the University of Pisa. She is carrying out her research project, entitled “Prognostic biomarkers in advanced differentiated thyroid cancer”, under the supervision of Prof. Fulvio Basolo. Her research project aims at characterize thyroid tumors to investigate molecular mechanisms behind recurrence, metastatization and dedifferentiation, in order to obtain prognostic and predictive biomarkers to be applied in the risk stratification of thyroid cancer patients. The goal is that, in the next future, these molecular markers will be translated into clinics to improve the management of thyroid cancer patients.