Summary
Ilaria is currently a Wellcome ISFF fellow and Research Associate at the Surgery and Cancer Department, in the Volatile Biomarker Research group led by Professor George Hanna. Her main interest is the analysis of volatile organic compounds in human breath as non-invasive technique for detection of neurological disorders, such as Epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.
As an analytical chemist, she has more than twelve years of experience with mass spectrometry coupled with chromatography (GC-MS, LC-MS, GCxGC-TOF, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS) as well as real-time mass spectrometry techniques (SIFT-MS and PTR-MS) and thermal desorption. She has been involved in numerous research projects during her career (including clinical, animal, and in vitro studies), applying her analytical chemistry experience in different fields, such as endocrinology, oncology, and neuroscience.
At Imperial College since September 2017, she is postdoc representative for the Surgery and Cancer Department and part of the Culture and Engagement committee. In 2022 she co-founded the Academic Women Association (AWA) at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, aimed at building a solid network to favor women's career progression in academia. In addition, she is part of the scientific committee of the MSACL international conference of clinical mass spectrometry, as topic leader of the breath research session.
Ilaria graduated at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy. She carried out her PhD project working between Italy (CRBA, Centre of Applied Biomedical Research, Bologna) and France (Neurocentre Magendie INSERM, Bordeaux), as part of the European PhD program Doctor Europaeus.
Publications
Journals
Woodfield G, Belluomo I, Laponogov I, et al., 2022, Diagnostic performance of a non-invasive breath test for colorectal cancer: COBRA1 study, Gastroenterology, Vol:163, ISSN:0016-5085, Pages:1447-1449.e8
Mitra A, Choi S, Boshier P, et al., 2022, The human skin volatolome: a systematic review of untargeted mass spectrometry analysis, Metabolites, Vol:12, ISSN:2218-1989, Pages:1-18
Kearney-Ramos T, Herrmann ES, Belluomo I, et al., 2022, The Relationship Between Circulating Endogenous Cannabinoids and the Effects of Smoked Cannabis, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, ISSN:2578-5125
Savva K-V, Hage L, Belluomo I, et al., 2021, Assessment of the burden of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) in patients after oesophagogastric (OG) cancer resection, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Vol:26, ISSN:1091-255X, Pages:924-926
Kamal F, Kumar S, Edwards MR, et al., 2021, Virus-induced volatile organic compounds are detectable in exhaled breath during pulmonary infection., American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol:204, ISSN:1073-449X, Pages:1075-1085