Simone Picelli

Simone Picelli

Head of the Single Cell Genomics Platform
Simone Picelli

Education and Training


08/2018
Team Leader Single-Cell Genomics Platform IOB

04/2017-06/2018
Leader Operations and Development at the Platform for Single-Cell Genomics and Epigenomics at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany 

02/2015-03/2017
Research Engineer SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden

03/2012-08/2014
Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Rickard Sandberg at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Stockholm, Sweden

05/2010-02/2012
Research Scientist, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany

04/2006-04/2010
Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Sten Linnarsson, Single-Cell Genomics Facility at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

2010
PhD in chemoresistance in breast cancer at the University of Padova, Italy

Publications

High-efficiency base editing in the retina in primates and human tissues

Nature Medicine, 2025
Alissa Muller, Jack Sullivan, Wibke Schwarzer, Mantian Wang, Cindy Park-Windhol, Pascal W Hasler, Lucas Janeschitz-Kriegl, Mert Duman, Beryll Klingler, Jane Matsell, Simon Manuel Hostettler, Patricia Galliker, Yanyan Hou, Pierre Balmer, Tamás Virág, Luis Alberto Barrera, Lauren Young, Quan Xu, Dániel Péter Magda, Ferenc Kilin, Arogya Khadka, Pierre-Henri Moreau, Lyne Fellmann, Thierry Azoulay, Mathieu Quinodoz, Duygu Karademir, Juna Leppert, Alex Fratzl, Georg Kosche, Ruchi Sharma, Jair Montford, Marco Cattaneo, Mikaël Croyal, Therese Cronin, Simone Picelli, Alice Grison, Cameron S Cowan, Ákos Kusnyerik, Philipp Anders, Magdalena Renner, Zoltán Zsolt Nagy, Arnold Szabó, Kapil Bharti, Carlo Rivolta, Hendrik P N Scholl, David Bryson, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Botond Roska, Bence György

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