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Roberta Del Testa, MSc

PhD Student

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Background

Roberta obtained her BSc in Biology in 2018 and her MSc in Biology Applied to Biomedicine in 2021 at the University of Pisa. Followed by a Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics and Data Science in 2025 at the University of Siena, Italy. Her postgraduate master’s thesis, titled “Development of an explainable model for constructing interaction graphs between clinical and environmental factors: the case of diabetes”, focused on explainable modeling approaches.

Her PhD focuses on analyzing the impact of pre- and post-transplant clinical features on graft and patient outcomes. Her ongoing PhD activities involve prediction benchmarking using patient-level prediction models.

Conference Presentations

  1. Scopelliti M, Van Strijdonck C, Gezici G, Carrai P, Petruccelli S, Catalano G, Martinelli C, Bronzoni J, Pezzati D, Tincani G, Balzano E, Femia FR, Del Testa R, Pellungrini R, Pedreschi D, Giannotti F, Marchetti P, Ghinolfi D, De Simone P, Marselli L. Pre- and Post-Liver Transplant Diabetes (DM) and Prediabetes (PD), and the Impact on Transplant Outcomes: Results of a Large Single-Center Study. Diabetes 2024; 73 (Supplement 1): 1315-P.
  1. Suleiman M, Gambino G, Tesi M, De Luca C, Del Testa R, Del Guerra S, Marselli L, Rossi L, Marchetti P. Adipocytokines in peri-pancreatic fat tissue in human T2D and correlations with beta-cell functions. 30th National Congress of the Italian Society of Diabetology (SID) – October 25, 2024. Poster presentation.
  1. De Luca C, Suleiman M, Tesi M, Del Testa R, Del Guerra S, Paolicchi A, Marchetti P, Marselli L. Heterogeneity of ex-vivo function of type 2 diabetes islets. 30th National Congress of the Italian Society of Diabetology (SID) – October 24, 2024. Poster presentation.