Irene Corradini received her PhD in Biotechnologies applied to Medical Sciences from the University of Milan in 2009, working in the lab of Prof. Michela Matteoli where she gained experience in celllular neuroscience and animal behavior. The main focus of her research activity has always been the study of neuronal function in health and disease, both in vitro on neuronal cultures, mainly investigating synaptic morphology and calcium regulation of synaptic function, and in vivo studying the consequences of synaptic dysfunction by means of behavioral analysis. Her previous research activity was mainly focused on the protein SNAP-25 in psychiatric diseases (Corradini et al, 2009; Corradini, Donzelli et al, 2014).

She is currently Researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience of the National Research Council and she investigates how inflammation impacts neurodevelopment, with particular focus on the mechanisms involved in neurodevelopmental diseases following prenatal insults (Corradini, Focchi et al, 2018) and on the impact of inflammation on mouse behavior (Filipello et al, 2018; Borreca et al, 2024).