Laura Mercatali, PhD (she/her/hers)

Senior Researcher
Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli IRCCS, Osteoncology- Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Innovative Therapies Unit, Bologna, Italy ; Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo studio dei Tumori "Dino Amadori", Preclinic and Osteoncology Unit, Meldola, Italy, Italy

My name is Laura Mercatali. I am a 20 year experience lab researcher. My research topic is Translational Research in Oncology. In particular My work was dedicated to the study of bone metatases and sarcomas. I have a huge expertise on the development of innovative preclinical model to study cancer cell aggressiveness, drug efficacy an the crosstalk betwwen cancer cell and microenvironment.

Poster(s):

• (P 253) THE EFFICACY OF MEDICATED PATCHES IN SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS: IN-VITRO AND EX-VIVO VALIDATION.

• (P 364) EVALUATION OF THE PREDICTIVE ROLE OF SYSTEMIC AND INTRATUMORAL IMMUNITY IN PATIENTS WITH LOCALIZED LIPOSARCOMAS, MYXOFIBROSARCOMAS AND UNDIFFERENTIATED PLEOMORPHIS SARCOMAS

• (P 533) SAFETY AND PRELIMINARY BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF A PHASE II TRIAL OF AUTOLOGOUS DENDRITIC CELLS VACCINATION IN SARCOMAS.