Martina is the director of research and development at Synapticure and she focuses on creating iPSC derived in vitro models to study neurodegenerative disorders. Martina received an undergraduate degree in biotechnology and a Master's degree in pharmaceutical biotechnology from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy), she then earned a PhD in clinical neuroscience from King's College London (UK) and deepened her knowledge of iPSC derived modelling in her postdoc at UCSF (US)