Dr. Goruppi is an Investigator at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor in Dermatology at Harvard Medical School. He received his Doctoral education in Cell Biology at the University of Trieste, and completed his postdoctoral training at National Laboratory for Biotechnologies, focusing on cell cycle regulation, and at the Diabetes Research Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital, as a Harvard Medical School research fellow studying T2D-related kidney fibrosis.
While an Instructor at Tufts New England Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, he received an American Heart Association Career Development Award for studying the role of stress signaling and autophagy in cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Goruppi is the Director of the Chemical Genetics Program in skin aging and cancer prevention, performing basic and translational research in the field of skin cancer. His recent studies tackle the mechanisms overseeing fibroblast activation in the tumor microenvironment and the transcriptional control of skin tumorigenesis.