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Her functional studies may suggest new therapeutic approaches to gene and cell therapy for the treatment of hereditary blood diseases. This is the first time that this award has come to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At SR-Tiget, Raffaella Di Micco leads a research team who study the molecular mechanisms<\/strong> that govern the response of human haematopoietic stem cells to different genetic engineering strategies, such as gene therapy and gene editing. \u201cI\u2019m particularly proud of this award, because it\u2019s the first time ever that it\u2019s been given to a researcher who works in Italy,\u201d the Raffaella said, on the spur of the moment. \u201cThanks to this award, our team will be able to investigate how to make even more efficient and effective the innovative therapeutic strategies based on engineering blood stem cells, which, over the last few years, have achieved extraordinary results in the treatment of rare genetic diseases. In our project, we\u2019re also going to use the CRISPR technique, a system of genetic scissors developed by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, who, for this, received the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, which allows intervening very precisely on DNA, and which has opened important prospects also for rare genetic diseases.\u201d This award to Raffaella Di Micco comes just a few days after the Nobel announcements that have proudly rewarded the contribution of women researchers to scientific progress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Raffaella di Micco, who was <strong>the face of the Telethon campaign on the awareness of rare genetic diseases, \u201cIo per Lei\u201d<\/strong>, on Mothers\u2019 Day 2019, has become the mother of Tommaso, who was born last August. An authentic Neapolitan, Raffaella is a citizen of the world, by \u201cwill\u201d of scientific research; today, after a post-doctoral experience of 5 years at New York University, her home is SR-Tiget in Milan. Indeed, she is what people call a \u201creturning brain\u201d. 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