postdoctoral researcher
Universitätklinikum Würzburg
Würzburg, Bayern, Germany
Stefano Navarro was born on November 18th 1993 in Naples, Italy. In 2015, he graduated in Health Biotechnology at the University of Naples Federico II. During the bachelor, he completed an internship at the Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology Department of the Secondo Policlinico, Naples. After the bachelor, he graduated in Medical Biotechnologies at the University of Naples Federico II. During this period, he completed a 15 month internship at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), where he focused on the study of molecular basis of a complex neuromuscular disorder (type II glycogen storage disease) using Whole Exome Sequencing. In 2018, he obtained the master degree with honor. In the same year, he started the PhD project as part of the joint doctoral Marie- Skłodowska-Curie programme (TAPAS) between the University of Würzburg (Germany) and the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands), under the joint supervision of Prof. Bernhard Nieswandt, Prof. Johan Heemskerk, Dr. Marijke Kuijpers and Dr. Heike Hermanns. During his PhD period, he physically worked at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Maastricht and the Department of Experimental Biomedicine at the University of Würzburg. Stefano Navarro was awarded the title of PhD in experimental Biomedicine from the university of Wuerzburg and the title of Doctor in Biochemistry from the University of Maastricht. Stefano Navarro currently works as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg in the Nieswandt Lab.