Paola Roncada MD, PhD

Paola Roncada, born in Milan in 1969, finished her studies in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Milan cum laude in 1995. In 1996 she began to work as a pharmacist in Milan and in 2001 she finished her research Ph.D. in biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sassari, writing her thesis on Proteomics of the milk protein in various species. Since 1997 she has been working for the Institute Spallanzani, founding the proteomics laboratory in collaboration with the University of Milan, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The main focus of the research is initially on milk, including human milk to subsequently shift the area of interest of proteomics to microorganisms for public health purposes, from animal welfare to food safety.

Since 2001 she is head of the Laboratory of Proteomics of the Institute Spallanzani, in collaboration with the Department of Veterinary Sciences and Public Health. Since 2009 she has been an elected member of the Board of the Italian Proteomics Association (as its Treasurer) and since 2013 she is the founder and member of the cda of the Italian Proteomics Association Foundation IPA onlus.