Marina Boido graduated in Biology in 2005 and obtained a PhD in “Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology: Functional genomics applied to translational research” in 2011, at the University of Turin, with a thesis on the use of stem cells as treatment for spinal cord injury. Since 2012, as Assistant Professor, she focused her research on the field of central nervous system (CNS) traumatic pathologies, neurodegenerative diseases and aging-related disorders.
Since 2025 she is Full Professor in Human Anatomy (Degree Courses of Medicine and Surgery, Biotechnology for Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology; Univ. Turin). Moreover, since 2021, she is Deputy Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Course in Biotechnology for Neuroscience (Univ. Turin), and since 2023 Coordinator of the Curriculum “Health and ecosystems” of the National PhD Program “Sustainable Development and Climate change”.
She is also the ALBA Network representative for the Italian Society for Neuroscience.
Research focus
The research interests of Marina Boido concern the study of neurodegenerative diseases and CNS traumatic pathologies: in particular, she is interested in motor neuron diseases (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal muscular atrophy), spinal cord injury, Alzheimer and sarcopenia, with the aim to deepen the knowledge on their pathophysiology and to identify new therapeutic targets/biomarkers.
Indeed, she is clarifying some important disease-related cellular and molecular mechanisms and evaluating different therapeutic approaches to prevent motor neuron loss, counteract muscular atrophy and/or neuroinflammation, and sustain muscle innervation. To this aim, she exploits cutting-edge technologies, including advanced imaging techniques, bioprinting, 3D cell culture models (organoids), stereological and morphometric approaches. In the last years, she was awarded several national (Telethon, PRIN, CRT, PNRR Projects) and international grants (AFM Telethon, SMA Europe).
