VERENA BISCARO

Verena Biscaro was born in Milano in 1992 and has a degree in Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology at University of Milano Bicocca. She carried out an experimental thesis about the theme of the influence of syntactic and lexical information of a sentence on the directional error in a bisection task, in aphasic and non-aphasic left brain damaged patients. She
carried out her post-graduated internship at Casa di Cura del Policlinico in Milan, participating in a prospective study on perseverations in patients with right brain injury. Since September 2018 she has been working at the Need Institute as a neuropsychological psychologist and researcher, dealing with forms of cognitive simulation and rehabilitation through technological devices in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.
MARIA LO GIUDICE

Maria Lo Giudice was born in Palermo in 1986 and has a degree in neurobiology at the Università La Sapienza in Rome. At the Department of Neurosciences of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità she completed her experimental thesis work aimed at studying the effects of a recombinant manganese superoxide-dismutase (rMnSOD1) on neurodegeneration. Subsequently she completed the PhD in neuroscience with a thesis entitled “the role of CaSR in Alzheimer’s Disease pathomechanisms”, at Biotalentum Ltd in Budapest, a company dedicated to the development and research on neurons derived from human stem cells induced by the iPSCs technology, within the European project “CaSR Biomedicine” – Marie Curie training network. Since November 2019 Maria Lo Giudice, as a researcher at the Need Institute, has activated a program of neurobiological studies on Alzheimer’s Disease, first in the laboratory of neurobiology for translational medicine at the Casa di Cura del Policlinico in Milan and currently at the Research Institute Pharmacological Mario Negri.
SILVIA BONO

Silvia Bono, graduated in Biology, completed her PhD in Biomedical Sciences in Firenze, carrying out a study aimed at identifying the mechanisms responsible for the suppression of the BCR/Abl protein in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia cells in conditions of energy restriction. Subsequently, at the laboratory of neural stem cells, in Milano, she carried out studies on rare neurodegenerative diseases such as Charcot Marie Tooth Disease 2A and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Silvia Bono, as a researcher at the Need Institute since March 2020, carried out neurobiological studies on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis at the laboratory of neurobiology for translational medicine at Casa di Cura del Policlinico in Milan.
LUCIA BUCCARELLO
