Email: alison.domingues@unimi.it
Alison graduated at Paris Descartes University in 2016 and her PharmD thesis was the first step in her thorough commitment in studying vascular function, with particular interest in angiogenic processes and finding new targets for therapy, including biotherapies. During her PhD at Paris Diderot University under the supervision of Prof Gaussem and Prof Smadja, Alison studied novel mechanisms to induce angiogenesis during cardiovascular aging or metabolic stress and spent one year in Dr Ratajczak’s lab at University of Louisville, USA, working on stem cell therapy with vascular progenitors.
In january 2020, Alison joined Alessandro Fantin's lab where she focuses on setting up angiogenesis models using microfluidics.

Email: carlotta.tacconi@unimi.it
Carlotta’s research activities have been mainly centred on studying the contribution of blood and lymphatic vessels and macrophages to the pathogenesis of cancer and inflammatory diseases. During her PhD, Carlotta worked in the gastrointestinal immunology lab at Humanitas Research Hospital Rozzano (Italy) where, under the supervision of Dr. Silvia D’Alessio and Professor Silvio Danese, she studied the role of lymphatic vessels and macrophages in colorectal cancer and in inflammatory bowel diseases. After obtaining her PhD in immunology and immunopathology, in July 2016 she moved to Switzerland where she joined the lab of Professor Michael Detmar at ETH Zürich to investigate blood and lymphatic vessel transcriptional programs in health and disease as well as macrophages’ contribution to cancer metastasis.
In February 2020 she joined the FantinLab, where she characterises molecular and cellular mechanisms of (lymph-)angiogenesis occurring in different tumor types.