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Post-doctoral Researcher
Genomics, Nutri-omics and Precision Health
My name is Mirko Treccani, a young scientist from Montichiari, a little town in the southeast province of Brescia, between the Po Valley and the Garda Lake.Â
I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Human Nutrition Unit at the Department of Food and Drug of the University of Parma (Italy) sponsored by Fondazione Umberto Veronesi.
My research focuses on human genomics and nutrigenomics, applying genome-wide association studies (GWAS), genotype imputation and polygenic risk scores (PGS) to investigate rare and complex diseases, cancer, and human traits. Moreover, I am applying integrative multi-omics approaches and network analysis to develop personalised nutritional interventions and foster precision health.
I strongly support interdisciplinarity and knowledge contamination: I let curiosity shape my life and make me learn something new daily.
My journey in science
My journey in science
03/2026-ongoing - Post-doctoral researcher - Fondazione Veronesi and Human Nutrition Unit, University of Parma (IT)
11/2023 - ongoing - Visiting researcher - Lyons group, University of Cambridge (UK)
03/2024-03/2026 - Post-doctoral researcher - Human Nutrition Unit, University of Parma (IT)
10/2020 - 09/2024 - PhD in Applied Life and Health Sciences - GM Lab, University of Verona (IT)
08/2023 - 10/2023 - Visiting PhD student - Smith group, University of Cambridge (UK)
03/2023 - 05/2023 - Visiting PhD student - MolSysEpi group, Erasmus University Medical Center (NL)
10/2018 - 07/2020 - MSc in Molecular and Medical Biotechnology - University of Verona (IT)
10/2015 - 11/2018 - BSc in Bioinformatics - University of Verona (IT)
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Latest news
Latest news
June 2026
Summer has arrived and is hitting hard on Parma: sunny day at the price of high temperatures till very late. At the beginning of the month, our work on UGT1A gene and (poly)phenols has been presented at the PREDIMED Omics Symposium 2026. In the middle of the months, I attended to small conferences on mesothelioma and breast cancer, chairing a bioinformatics session in the second one (EMPOWERing talks: State of the Art and Translational Research in Breast Cancer). Finally, I am officially part of the NuGO's Early Career Network (ECN) and Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Working Groups.
May 2026
In an extremely hot Italian spring, our commentary paper on the 20 years of ISCB Student Council has been published in Bioinformatic Advances. I finished the seminars on nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics at my former High School, looking forward attending the final event this autumn. Different side activities are happening, spanning from wine tasting to crowd funding evaluation: never stop learning.
April 2026
Easter time to recharge and face April to dos. I was elected vice-representative of the BCC Garda's Young Board and Community Reviewer for Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology for the Intestinal Microbiome section. Finally, I had the opportunity to be part for the first time of a Degree Panel where Alice - my first MSc trainee student in Parma - graduated in Genomic, Molecular and Industrial Biotechnologies.
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