Romina GAMBERALE
Romina Gamberale, Ph.D., is currently Director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine (IMEX)-CONICET at the National Academy of Medicine in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Co-Director of the Laboratory of Onco-Immunology (https://imex.conicet.gov.ar/ ). She attended University of Buenos Aires where she majored in Cellular Biology in 1998 and received her Ph.D. in Cellular Biology in 2002 at the University of Buenos Aires studying the role of the microenvironment in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) under the mentorship of Dr. Mirta Giordano. She obtained a fellowship of the French Society of Cancer to attend to Marie Curie Institute in Paris in 2001 to study the role of the tyrosine kinase Syk in dendritic cell maturation, under the supervision of Dr. Sebastian Amigorena.
Then, in 2003 she obtained another research fellow to study the mutational status of CLL patients in the Pasteur Institute in Paris under the supervision of Dr. Guillermo Dighiero. She has been teaching Immunology at the School of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires since 1998 and she is the co-Coordinator of the Immunology Course in the Hematologist Training Program of the Argentinian Society of Hematology since 2015. Her research group is interested in studying how the tumor microenvironment regulates the activation, proliferation and survival of CLL cells and their response to different therapeutic agents.
Dr. Gamberale actively fosters the promotion of regional development of basic and clinical research in LLC. She participates in the Latin American Group of CLL (LAG-CLL) and also participates in the iwCLL Global Partnerships Subcommittee, a working subcommittee of international leaders in CLL whose objective is to improve the situation of CLL patients worldwide, promoting clinical and/or research training of hematologists/investigators, improving local research capacities, training of future academic leaders in CLL research, and CLL awareness among patients all over the world (https://www.iwcll.org/about/subcommittee/global-partnerships-subcommittee/).
Throughout his career, she has supervised the research of numerous undergraduate fellows, Ph.D students, post-docs and young investigators interested in CLL and publishes more than 50 papers in immunology and hematology international journals.