At present Dr Elda Perlino is Senior Scientist (Primo Ricercatore) at the CNR -ITB, Bari, Italy.
Dr. Perlino is studying the mechanisms that support malignant cell transformation and progression, metastasis establishment and growth in human cancer, by the investigation of the regulation of expression of factors that control cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis such as adhesion factors (B1 Integrin splice variant) growth factors (IGF-1, TGF-B) and receptors, oncogenic factors (BCL-2) and apoptotic factors (Clusterin) in normal and neoplastic human tissue such as thyroid endometrial, prostate and mammary tissues.
The study of the expression of genes involved in human prolifera...