Roberta Zappasodi is Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM, New York, NY), faculty member of the Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis Weill Cornell Graduate Program, Lippmann & McCarthy Research Scholar in Breast Cancer at Weill Cornell, and Member Researcher in the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI).
Her lab studies mechanisms of T-cell regulation suppressing the immune response against cancer, with the goal of devising new modalities to counteract these mechanisms for improving the activity of immunotherapy.
Dr. Zappasodi holds a PhD in Tumor Immunology/Immunotherapy from the National Cancer Institute of Milan (Italy). She was a PICI Scholar and Bridge Fellow during her postdoc at Memorial Sloan Kettering (New York, NY) and in her transition to WCM.