Monica Attanasio is Researcher of Laboratory Medicine Techniques at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of the University of Florence. Since 2015 she is biologist manager at the Centre for Bleeding Disorders and Coagulation (Careggi University Hospital, Florence), and she focuses her activity in laboratory aspects of haemophilia, von Willebrand’s disease and other rare hereditary and acquired diseases of the coagulation.   In this context, she is involved in clinical protocols with novel drugs.  She has solid expertise in the field of assessment of platelet dysfunction. She is member of the Italian Society of Haemostasis and Thrombosis.

Graduated in Biological Sciences at University of Florence in 1988 with full marks. She was appointed technical collaborator in 1990 at the Institute of General Clinical Medicine and Medical Therapy I of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Florence. Specialized in Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry in 1992 at University of Florence. In 2005 she was appointed Researcher of Laboratory Medicine Techniques at the Department of Medical Surgical Critical Area of the University of Florence. From 2006 to 2016 she was teacher of Clinical Pathology at the School of Nursing Sciences of the University of Florence. Since 2019 she is teacher of the level II Master course “Health and Gender Medicine” and tutor in the specialization course “Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry”.

Since graduating she has dedicated herself to the research on the mechanisms of coagulation and platelet activation. She studied the metabolism of arachidonic acid in leukocytes and the role of cytokines and growth factors in cancer. She also studied atherosclerosis and its interaction with inflammatory and immune processes and focused her research on the antithrombotic mechanisms of heparin and related molecules and their interaction with vascular wall and leukocytes. She was actively involved in research on Marfan syndrome and related disorders, particularly in the field of identifying mutations in extracellular matrix protein genes. More recently, her main scientific interests concern the role of thromboelastometry and thrombin generation together with classical coagulation tests in exploring haemostasis in obstetric and gynaecological diseases, and in assisted reproduction. She is author and co-author of more than 60 publications in national and international journals.