Anna Rita Migliaccio, Phd

Associate Investigator

SEDE

CNR NANOTEC @ LECCE

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annarita.migliaccio@unibo.it

Dr. Migliaccio holds degrees in Biological Sciences and in Natural Science from the University of Naples, Naples – Italy and has been trained at serious prestigious institutions such as the TNO Institute for Radiobiological Research, Rijswijk – The Netherlands, and the Department of Hematology, University of Washington – Seattle, WA.

She has been: Co-director of the Hematopoietic Growth Factor laboratory of the New Blood Center – New York, NY; Director for Research in Transfusion Medicine, Istituto Superiore Sanità – Rome, Italy; Professor of Medicine at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – Mount Sinai, New York, NY; “Chiara Fama” Professor of Istology and Embryology, Alma Mater University of Bologna – Bologna, Italy.

She currently holds a joint position as Senior Investigator of the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences – Seattle, WA.

Dr. Migliaccio is internationally recognized for her work in experimental hematology on the mechanisms that regulate fate decisions of the hematopoietic stem cells and how these mechanisms are altered in congenital and acquired diseases. Her laboratory made seminal discoveries on the changes in the property of the hematopoietic stem cells during ontogenesis and aging that pioneered studies on cord blood as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation and on the pathobiology of hemoglobinopathies and myeloproliferative disorders.

Dr. Migliaccio serves as Associated Editor/Editor in chief of several scientific journals and is member of relevant national (NIH) and international (European Community) study sections.

Dr. Migliaccio has published over 215 scientific papers, H-index = 43 and 12,366 total citations (Scopus 2025).

Grant support

  • National Cancer Institute CA108671-11-16
  • Associatione Italian Ricerca Cancro (AIRC IG23525)
  • Dompè Farmaceutical

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