Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and Washington D.C. have filed a laws ui
t against the Department of Education and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after the secretary froze borrower defense rules last month.
She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the
Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta
T cells as effector cells of the immune response
against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.