Biography:

Anna Rita Minafra graduated in 2018 in Molecular Medicine Biotechnology in the University of Bari (Italy), with the maximal score cum laude, after accomplishing the work for her Master thesis in Switzerland at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in the laboratory Prof. Joerg Huelsken, supported by a scholarship “Global Thesis”, which was attributed on a competitive basis. She is currently a PhD student at Heinrich-Heine University, Dϋsseldorf (Germany), in the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Prof. Dr. Jϋrgen Scheller. She is part of the Research Training Group RTG 2576 "vivid - In vivo investigations towards the early development of type 2 diabetes" since September 2020.