About me

I am a molecular biologist with a PhD in Structural and Nanobiology from the Université Grenoble Alpes, where I studied the structure and function of ion channels involved in the molecular mechanisms of type 2 diabetes. My research was conducted at the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) in Grenoble and resulted in publications in peer-reviewed international journals.

After my PhD, I worked for several years as a nutritionist, specialising in metabolic diseases. That experience taught me something that has shaped everything I have done since: people engage with science when it is explained, not just prescribed. The more precisely I communicated the reasoning behind a recommendation, the better the outcomes.

I realised that what I was most interested in was not the practice itself, but the translation — taking a complex biological concept and making it precise, clear and useful without losing scientific integrity.

MM Science Studio is the result of that realisation. It is an editorial laboratory dedicated to scientific content in the life sciences, working with biotech companies, universities, research centres, and scientific publishers. Every project starts from genuine disciplinary competence, because writing well about science requires understanding it first.

For projects requiring complementary expertise, I work with selected professionals in scientific communication and editorial design.

Peer-reviewed publications

Principalli MA et al. Functional mapping of the N-terminal arginine cluster and C-terminal acidic residues of Kir6.2 channel fused to a G protein-coupled receptor. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2017.07.015

Principalli MA et al. Kir6.2 activation by Sulfonylurea Receptors: A different mechanism of action for SUR1 and SUR2A via the same residues. Physiological Reports, 2015. DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12533