Cecilia Gelfi
University of Milan, Italy
Biography
Cecilia Gelfi is a Associate Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan. The scientifi c activity of Cecilia Gelfi has been focused on: the development of methodologies for the separation and identification of biomolecules. She contributed to the development of electrophoretic techniques transforming them into a physico-chemical tool for probing the structure and conformation of macromolecules; the investigation of the functional and morphological changes occurring in muscle in a number of physiological and pathological states. Recently, the interest have been focused on development of 1) clinical methods for monitoring drugs; 2) protocols for serological profi les for the clinical diagnosis of pancreatic and prostate cancer and infl ammatry bowel disease; 3) MALDI imaging methodologies for monitoring nano particles; 4) HPTLC-MALDI methodologies for recognition and quantitation of gangliosides and globosides in tissue extracts. Cecilia Gelfi published 213 scientifi c articles on international peer-reviewed journals (Scopus h-index 2015: 37)