Experience
Career
2024The International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations
Scientific Director · 2024 – Present
2024Synapticure
Scientific Advisor · 2024 – Present
- 2021
Synapticure
R&D Director · 2021 – 2024
2018University of California, San Francisco
Post Doctoral Scholar · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2022
2018Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Fellow for Biological Foundation of Mental health · London, United Kingdom · 2018
- 2018
Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience
Project Manager · London, United Kingdom · 2018
2016UES London Ltd
Chemistry, Biology and Italian Tutor · London, United Kingdom · 2016 – 2018
2015The Brilliant Club
PhD Tutor · Londra, Regno Unito · 2015 – 2016
2014Innovation Forum
Treasurer for the Innovation Forum · Innovation forum - King's College London · 2014 – 2015
2013King's College London
Internship student in neuroscience (Masters Project) · CCBB Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London · 2013 – 2014
2010Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Internship (Brain Tumor Stem Cells) · Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena Roma · 2010 – 2012
2011University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Librarian · Dept. of Chemistry and Drug Technology, University of Rome “La Sapienza” · 2011
Bio
Martina is the director of research and development at Synapticure and she focuses on creating iPSC derived in vitro models to study neurodegenerative disorders. Martina received an undergraduate degree in biotechnology and a Master's degree in pharmaceutical biotechnology from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy), she then earned a PhD in clinical neuroscience from King's College London (UK) and deepened her knowledge of iPSC derived modelling in her postdoc at UCSF (US)