Dr Marcello Maresca

Marcello Maresca is an Senior Principal Scientist/Director in the Discovery Sciences unit at AstraZeneca. He is currently leading the Genome Engineering department working on the development of Genome and Epigenome Editing technologies applied in Drug Discovery and in Therapeutic Genome Editing. He obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology form Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, followed by a presidential postdoctoral fellowship at the Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research(NIBR- Cambridge USA) where he worked on the development and applications of genome editing tools in drug discovery.