Gabriela Graziani
Dr. Gabriela Graziani is Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at Polytechnic University of Milan, where she conducts research regarding materials science applied to orthopaedics, with a special focus on materials for spine surgery, including new antibacterial, bioactive and anti-tumor materials and implants for the spine, new materials for the intervertebral disk regeneration, new systems for spine fusion, and platforms for drugs and therapeutic molecules delivery.
She obtained her Master Degree (2012) and her PhD (2016) in Engineering at the University of Bologna, where she also served at as post-doc researcher. She has been researcher at Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute from 2017 to 2023 and adjunct professor of Ceramic Materials at the University of Bologna from 2016 to 2019. She spent research periods abroad, including 6 months as a Visiting Student Research Collaborator at Princeton University (2014-2105), under the supervision of prof. George Scherer and 2 months as a Visiting Scholar at the New York University (2023).
Her research was awarded with several prices including the ON-EORS award in 2021, a 10.000 AlmaCurie prize from the University of Bologna for participation to the MSCA call 2021, a 10.000 prize for start-up ideas (Programme Reactor, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna) and by a visiting and training period at the “Mind The Bridge Startup School” (San Francisco, CA).
She is board member of the European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS), where she serves as Secretary General and Co-chair of the awards committee. She is co-chair of Research for the Spine Section of of the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) and a Member of the ORS Innovation Committee. Previously, she served in the Young Investigators board of the EORS (2020-2022) and in the Industry Alliance Committee of the ORS (2022-2024). She is a member of the Cost Action NetwOArk (CA21110 “Building an open European Network on OsteoArthritis research”, 2022-on), of the EUSOA congress working group (09/2023-on), and of the Cost Action TENET (“TEndon Regeneration NETwork”, CA22170) (2024-on)..
She served as scientific committee member and chair, invited speaker, session co-chair and has co-organized several workshops and symposia at international conferences.
She received funding as Principal Investigator of the projects “New antimicrobial 3D printed and nanostructured materials to tackle bacterial growth: from BIOmedicine to Cultural Heritage - BIO2CH”, financed by NRRP Mission 4, “Education and Research”, which includes development of 3D printed materials and nanostructured coatings for spine fusion and “A new strategy to address tumor relapses by nanostructured implantable devices”, financed by the Italian Ministry of Health and devoted to antimicrobial and antitumor materials for spine metastases; as WP leader of projects funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scottish Funding Council and the Scottish Government (RSE Saltire International Collaboration Award) and by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (5 per mille for Scientific Research) and as key person of the Euronanomed Project “NANOVERTEBRA - Next generation antibacterial nanostructured osseointegrated customized vertebral replacement”.
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