Mara Riminucci is currently Associate Professor of Pathology at the University La Sapienza of Rome. She previously worked as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of L'Aquila. She received her MD from the University of Rome La Sapienza where she also received her Board certification in Anatomic Pathology and a PhD in Human Pathology. She continued her training at the National Institute of Health where she received a Fogarty International Fellowship and was repeatedly appointed as Visiting Fellow. She has a long standing experience in skeletal biology and genetic skeletal diseases and has contributed as Expert Consultant to International Clinical Protocols on Fibrous dysplasia based at NIH.
She has written several articles in peer reviewed journals and books and participated as a guest speaker to many national and international conferences.

Selected publications

Sacchetti B, Funari A, Michienzi S, Di Cesare S, Piersanti S, Saggio I, Tagliafico E, Ferrari S, Gehron Robey P, Riminucci M, Bianco P: Self-renewing osteoprogenitors in bone marrow sinusoids can organize the hematopoietic microenvironment.  Cell 2007, 131(2): 324-36

Michienzi S, Cherman N, Holmbeck K, Funari A, Collins MT, Bianco P,     Gehron Robey P, Riminucci M: GNAS transcripts in skeletal progenitors: Evidence for random asymmetric allelic expression of Gsa. Human Molecular Genetics 2007, 16:1921-1930

Riminucci M, Saggio I, Gehron Robey P, Bianco P: Fibrous dysplasia as a     stem cell disease. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2006, 21S2: 125-131

Kuznetsov SA*, Riminucci M*, Ziran N, Tsutsui TW, Corsi A, Calvi L, Kronenberg HM, Schipani E, Gehron Robey P, Bianco P: The interplay of osteogenesis and hematopoiesis: expression of a constitutively active PTH/PTHrP receptor in osteogenic cells perturbs the establishment of hematopoiesis in bone and of skeletal stem cells in the bone marrow.
*Equal contributors J Cell Biol 2004, 167: 1113-1122

Riminucci M, Collins MT, Fedarko NS, Cherman N, Corsi A, White KE, Gupta A, Hannon T,MD, Econs MJ, Bianco P, Gehron Robey P: FGF-23 in fibrous dysplasia of bone and its relationship to renal phosphate wasting. Journal of Clinical Investigation 2003, 112: 683-692

Minasi MG*, Riminucci M*, De Angelis L, Borello U, Berarducci B, Innocenzi A, Caprioli A, Sirabella D, Baiocchi M, Jaffredo T, Broccoli V, Bianco P,  Cossu G: The Meso-Angioblast: A Multipotent, Self-Renewing Cell, That Originates From The Dorsal Aorta And Differentiates Into Mesodermal Tissues.
*Equal contributors. Development 2002, 129: 2773-2783

Riminucci M, Collins M, Lala R, Corsi A, Matarazzo P, Gehron Robey P,  Bianco P: An R201 activating mutation of the GNAS 1 (Gsa) gene in Cushing's disease. Molecular Pathology 2002, 55 (1): 58-60

Riminucci M, Collins MT, Corsi A, Boyde A, Murphey MD, Wientroub S, Kuznetsov SA, Cherman N, Gehron Robey P, Bianco P: Gnatho-diaphyseal dysplasia: a syndrome of fibro-osseous lesions of jawbones, bone fragility, and long bone bowing. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2001, 16: 1710-1718

Riminucci M, Fisher LW, Majolagbe A, Lala R, Corsi A, de Sanctis C, Gehron Robey P, Bianco P: A novel GNAS 1 mutation, R201G, in McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS). Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 1999, 14: 1987-1989

Bianco P, Kuznetsov S, Riminucci M, Fisher LW, Spiegel AM, Gehron Robey P:  Reproduction of human fibrous dysplasia of bone in immunocompromised mice by transplanted mosaics of normal and Gsa -mutated skeletal progenitor cells. Journal of Clinical Investigation 1998, 101: 1737-1744