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History
Saggiolab was set up in 1997 at the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Lab P.I. is I. Saggio, assistant professor of Genetics and Gene therapy, director of the Master in Life science communication (http://www.mastersgp.it), group leader at the Institute of Cell biology and Tissue engineering at the San Raffaele di Roma Science Park (www.scienceparkrome.eu), associate researcher of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology of CNR (http://www.ibpm.cnr.it/).

Activity

Currently, group's work (see Who section for CVs) is concentrated on two main research lines (see What section): i) the study of virus cell interactions, and ii) the development, use and characterization of viral vectors for gene therapy. The viruses that are studied/used in Saggiolab are adenovirus, lentivirus and phage.

Teaching activity of people from Saggiolab and information for students can be found in the Whoelse section.