Giulia Fiscon

Giulia Fiscon is an Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at the Department of Computer, Automation, and Management Engineering (DIAG) of Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a summa cum laude degree in Biomedical Engineering from Campus Bio-Medico University (2012) and a PhD in Computer Science from Sapienza (2016, with top honors). Her research focuses on bioinformatics, computational biology, and network medicine, particularly in drug repurposing, cancer genomics, and systems pharmacology. She has authored 65+ publications with an h-index of 24 (Scopus).

Current roles include teaching Bioinformatics courses and leading research on network-based approaches for drug discovery. Her work integrates transcriptomics, interactomics, and computational tools like SWIM and SAveRUNNER to address complex diseases. Recent projects include predicting drug responses in cancers, analyzing drug-toxicity interactions, and developing ontologies for Alzheimer’s data.

Her research highlights include:

• Network medicine applications in oncology and neurodegenerative diseases
• Development of computational tools for RNA analysis and drug repurposing
• Investigation of microRNA-mRNA interactions in cancer progression

Her articles emphasize drug repositioning strategies, precision medicine, and systems biology frameworks. She has collaborated with institutions like the National Research Council and the Foundation for Personalized Medicine.