Giorgia Quadrato is an assistant professor in the Broad CIRM Center and Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC). She previously worked as a research associate in the Arlotta Laboratory at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Dr. Quadrato’s lab focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular basis of human brain development and disease. By combining the use of emerging models of the human brain with single cell omics approaches, she is aiming to identify cell type specific disease mechanisms, and above all, new treatments for human neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Quadrato earned her BS, MS, from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and her PhD in pharmacogenomic biotechnology from the University of Novara (Italy)