Alice Soragni's Biography

Alice Soragni, Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles

Alice Soragni is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at UCLA and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Originally from Italy, she received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from ETH Zürich and a postdoctoral fellowship with David Eisenberg (UCLA) before starting her independent lab in December 2016 at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

We develop strategies to test drugs in 3D tumor organoid models in a fast, reliable, high-throughput, inexpensive manner. Requiring few tumor cells, we aim to extend our methods to test combination of chemotherapies or targeted therapies directly on primary tumors from patients' biopsies or surgical samples in order to personalize treatment. Our most current work is focused on sarcoma, ovarian cancer, neuroendocrine tumors as well as neurofibromas.