Francesca M. Spagnoli

Role: Group Leader, Professor of Regenerative Medicine

Nationality: Italian

After graduating from Medical School, Francesca received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the Pasteur Institute and UPMC in Paris, France. She then did her postdoc at The Rockefeller University, New York, USA, in the Brivanlou lab. In 2008, she established her own research group at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany, where she has initiated new lines of investigation on the control of pancreatic cell identity and lineage reprogramming strategies.

Francesca has recently moved to London to become a Group Leader at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King's College London. She has been the recipient of prestigious grants, including an ERC Starting grant, ERC Proof-of-Concept grant, and and Wellcome Trust Investigator award. More recently, she became the coordinator of a FET OpenEuropean consortium on bioengineering pancreatic tissue. She is also the Director of Wellcome Trust PhD Programme called ‘Advanced Therapies for Regenerative Medicine’.