meet the team
Early Stage Researchers

Ana Carolina Bastos Sant’Anna Silva
ESR 2 (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS)
Project title: Cell ergometry and mitochondrial metabolic biomarkers in cancer

Ana Catarina da Silva Almeida
ESR 8 (Université catholique de Louvain; previously AvantiCell Science Ltd)
Project title: Cancer cell models to test metabolic intervention strategies

Christina Schmidt
ESR 4 (University of Cambridge)
Project title: Fumarase and fumarate: epigenetic modifications in FH-deficient tumors

Daniela Weber
ESR 11 (Paracelsus Medical University)
Project title: Impact of ketogenic diet on tumor behavior

Floriana Jessica Di Paola
ESR 3 (Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen)
Project title: Coordination of glutaminolysis and glycolysis in cancer cells

Houda Abla
ESR 9 (University of Bologna, FaBiT)
Project title: Inducing pseudonormoxia as adjuvant therapeutic strategy for cancer

Luca Zampieri
ESR 10 (Université catholique de Louvain)
Project title: Targeting mtROS to prevent cancer metastasis

Maheshwor Thapa
ESR 7 (Biocrates Life Sciences AG)
Project title: Quantitative analysis of coenzymes in cancer cells

Nicole Bezuidenhout
ESR 6 (Karolinska Institute)
Project title: Roles of mitochondrial biogenesis enzymes in regulation of chemoresistance

Nikkitha Umesh Ganesh
ESR 5 (University of Bologna, DIMEC)
Project title: Mitochondrial complex I-driven regulation of the hypoxic response in cancer cells
