After her PhD at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Giulia trained at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as an EMBO and HFSP Post-doctoral Fellow. Here sheco-discovered different states of fibroblasts in pancreatic cancer, and malignant cell-cues responsible for their reprogramming. Since 2020, she is a Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge. Her lab aims to develop tailored therapeutics for groups of pancreatic tumours by targeting malignant cell-fibroblast crosstalk in primary and secondary micro-environments. Giulia is also a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowand co-director of the Pancreatic Cancer Programme at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre.