Ilaria Elia, PhD

Ilaria was born in Italy and received her Ph.D. at the VIB of Leuven, in Belgium. During her studies, she investigated how metabolism defines a cancer phenotype and discovered two metabolic pathways that can be targeted to impair metastasis formation. As a postdoctoral researcher, she would like to link metabolic pathways to immune system regulation in order to identify effective therapeutic strategies. Her work is supported the European Molecular Biology Organization Fellowship

What she is up to now: currently sleeping on the floor because Ikea hasn't delivered her bed yet. It's been 2 months.