Dr. Annarosa Arcangeli

Full Professor at University of Florence, Italy

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Prof. Annarosa Arcangeli M.D., Ph.D, is full Professor of General Pathology at the University of Florence. She graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1981, and qualified as specialist in Clinical and Laboratory Hematology in 1984. Prof Arcangeli has a long standing experience in research on ion channels and their role in neoplastic transformation. She is one of the main experts in hERG and its role in cancer worldwide. Following several periods of work at the University of Cambridge, Prof Arcangeli also gained considerable biotechnology experience for genetic manipulation of mammals in order to produce genetically modified animals, as well as for the production of monoclonal and recombinant antibodies in E. coli and yeasts.