The future
is unwritten.

The official page of the R2NiTO laboratory. Established in 2019, now based @ IFOM ETS — The AIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Milan.

About the lab Open positions

Also at ifom.eu/cereda

What we do

RNA Regulatory Networks

Deciphering RNA processing regulation in disease

Tumor Resistance

Assessing tumor plasticity that fosters disease progression

Data Science

Designing novel algorithms to gain information from genomic Big Data

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Lab photo

"The future is unwritten"

— Joe Strummer, songwriter

Lab members

Mariachiara Grieco

Mariachiara

Ph.D.
Tommaso Becchi

Tommaso

SEMM Ph.D. student
Jointly supervised by Pozzoli lab
Federica

Federica

M.D. SEMM Ph.D. student
ESMO fellow
Gabriele

Gabriele

Research fellow
Vivian

Vivian

Ph.D. student
Jointly supervised by Ambrogio lab
Gabriele

Gabriele

Master thesis student
Kehan Chen

Kehan

Master thesis student
Debora

Debora

Ph.D. student
Jointly supervised by Ambrogio lab
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Latest updates

Science Advances review on genome instability and RNA processing

Our review is out in Science Advances

Our new review on the reciprocal control of genome instability and RNA processing in cancer is published in Science Advances, with Mariachiara Grieco and Federica Giugliano as first authors, together with the Guccione and Vitale labs. Read it here.

Matteo — 06 Nov 2026
RNAmotifs 2.0

RNAmotifs 2.0 is out in BMC Biology

Our new paper is now published in BMC Biology. RNAmotifs 2.0 couples multivalent RNA-motif discovery with in vivo RBP-binding evidence to infer motif–protein associations driving alternative splicing. Read it here.

Matteo — 28 Sep 2026
IFOM

The lab is embracing a new beginning

From October 2025, we embark on a new adventure at IFOM — the AIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology. Our research will focus on unraveling the RNA regulatory networks that drive tumor plasticity and disease progression.

Matteo — 04 Oct 2025
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Funding agencies

All our research efforts are possible thanks to the support of the following agencies.