A Next Generation Sequencing approach for plasma microRNA profiling in bladder cancer

Barbara Pardini has completed her Ph.D. in Genetics and microbiology in 2007 at Pisa University (Italy). She has made her postdoc in the Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague) searching for susceptibility loci of gastrointestinal cancers (namely colorectal and pancreatic malignancies). She is currently Post-doc Researcher at the Genomic Variation in Human Population and Complex Diseases Unit at Human Genetics Foundation (Torino, Italy). She has published 41 papers in peer reviewed impacted journals, participated in several international/national grants, both in Italy and the Czech Republic. Her main topics are colorectal cancer susceptibility, DNA repair and recently microRNAs.