Giuseppe Testa
- Head of Neurogenomics
- Research Group Leader, Testa Group
Giuseppe Testa, MD, PHD, MA, is a professor of Molecular Biology at Milan’s Università Statale and Director of the High Definition Disease Modelling Lab: Stem Cell and Organoid Epigenetics at the European Institute of Oncology. At Human Technopole, Prof. Testa leads the Neurogenomics centre of the research programme in collaboration with the Università Statale in Milan. The programme studies the molecular mechanisms underlying intellectual disabilities and autism.
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11/2023 - Cell Reports Medicine
RAGE engagement by SARS-CoV-2 enables monocyte infection and underlies COVID-19 severity
The spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has fueled the COVID-19 pandemic with its enduring medical and socioeconomic challenges because of subsequent waves and long-term consequences of great concern. Here, we chart the molecular basis of COVID-19 pathogenesis by analyzing patients’ immune responses at single-cell resolution across disease course and severity. This […]
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10/2022 - BioRxiv
GTF2I dosage regulates neuronal differentiation and social behavior in 7q11.23 neurodevelopmental disorders
Copy number variations at 7q11.23 cause neurodevelopmental disorders with shared and opposite manifestations. Deletion causes Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS), while duplication causes 7q11.23 microduplication syndrome (7Dup). Converging evidence indicates GTF2I, from the 7q11.23 locus, is a key mediator of the cognitive-behavioral phenotypes associated with WBS and 7Dup. Here we integrate molecular profiling of patient-derived cortical organoids (COs) […]
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10/2022 - BioRxiv
7q11.23 CNV alters protein synthesis and REST-mediated neuronal intrinsic excitability
Copy number variations (CNVs) at 7q11.23 cause Williams-Beuren (WBS) and 7q microduplication syndromes (7Dup), two neurodevelopmental disorders with shared and opposite cognitive-behavioral phenotypes. Using patient-derived and isogenic neurons, we integrated transcriptomics, translatomics and proteomics to elucidate the molecular underpinnings of this dosage effect. We found that 7q11.23 CNVs cause opposite alterations in neuronal differentiation and […]
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09/2022 - Nature
A nomenclature consensus for nervous system organoids and assembloids
Self-organizing three-dimensional cellular models derived from human pluripotent stem cells or primary tissue have great potential to provide insights into how the human nervous system develops, what makes it unique and how disorders of the nervous system arise, progress and could be treated. Here, to facilitate progress and improve communication with the scientific community and […]
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