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Name:
Dr. Rossella Cannarella, MD, PhD
Title:
M.D., PhD
Company:
University of Catania
Membership:
Early Career 
Bio:
Dr. Rossella Cannarella is an Endocrinology specialist and a European Academy of Andrology (EAA) certified Clinical Andrologist who has carried out her internship at the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolic Diseases and Nutrition, University of Catania (Italy), an EAA Training Center, directed by her research mentor, Prof. Aldo E Calogero. In 2022, she received her international PhD in Translational Biomedicine from the University of Catania. She was appointed Research Fellow at the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland (OH, USA). Dr. Cannarella spent more than 15 years training in the field of endocrinology, male infertility, and human reproduction. During her residency in Endocrinology, she joined Summer Schools organized by the EAA leading Center in Testicular Histology (Zagreb, Croatia), where she gained knowledge on human testicular histopathology. She also joined and collaborated with colleagues of the University of Perugia (Italy), experts in culturing neonatal porcine Sertoli cells, where she developed research protocols aimed at understanding the impact of growth factors (i.e. insulin, IGF1, etc.) on the function of these cells. More recently, she has begun to focus on sperm epigenetics and transcriptome. As a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, MA, USA), she spent six months studying the role of sperm-derived transcripts on parthenotes gene expression in mice, a project for which she was awarded by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in 2020. Dr. Cannarella has participated as a guest lecturer in over 50 national and international meetings on male infertility and human reproduction. She is a member of the Editorial Board of five peer-reviewed and indexed journals (Frontiers in Endocrinology - section Reproduction, BMC Urology, International Journal of Molecular Science, Minerva Endocrinology, Asian Journal of Andrology, Endocrinology, Heliyon). She has published 240 articles in indexed, peer-reviewed journals and has an h-index of 30 (Scopus, 27/12/2024). Dr. Cannarella’s research interests include the role of FSH in the treatment of male infertility, the genetics of spermatogenic failure, the effects of growth factors on immature Sertoli cells, testicular function in childhood, and the role of sperm-derived transcripts in embryo development. Her clinical interests include the management of infertile male patients, varicocele, male accessory gland infection/inflammation, hypogonadism, gynecologic endocrinology, metabolic diseases, and general endocrinology.