Dr. Cappelletti earned her MS in Medical Biotechnology and her PhD in Molecular Medicine/Immunology at the University of Milan, Italy. During her graduate training in Dr. Della Bella’s lab, Dr. Cappelletti focused on uncovering the immunological processes associated with the alteration of immune cell populations in pregnancy disorders. For her postdoctoral training, she moved to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Dr. Divanovic’s lab, where she focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of innate immune signaling and inflammation in infection and immune-associated induction of preterm birth. Specifically, her aim was to uncover the cellular and molecular pathways underlying the role of inflammation and type I IFN/IFNAR axis in induction of preterm birth. In August 2017, she was recruited to UCLA in Dr. Kallapur’s lab and her project was focused on preclinical evaluation of promising drugs to prevent inflammation associated preterm labor and investigating mechanisms of intrauterine inflammation and fetal inflammation in both Rhesus and mouse models of pregnancy complications. In March 2021, Dr. Cappelletti became Director of the Immune Assessment Core and Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
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