Emanuela Cuomo PhD

Emanuela Cuomo is an Associate Director in the Discovery Biology department in Cambridge. She leads the Cell Biology team and co-leads the Precise genome editing discipline contributing to innovation in the CRISPR field. The Cell biology team generated cell models for target identification and validation for the Oncology disease area, including Immuno Oncology.

Emanuela is an expert in the study of cell cycle signaling in normal and cancer cells. She obtained a PhD in biochemistry at the Institute of Cancer Research in London where she characterised a novel viral cyclin/CDK complex, its modulation by CDK inhibitors and its biological function in oncogenesis. Subsequently she joined UCL Cancer Institute in London in the Viral Oncogenesis team as a CR-UK postdoctoral fellow. There, she studied the interplay between the cellular DNA damage response and viral protein kinases.