Elena Conti (born 14 February 1967 in Varese, Italy) is an Italian biochemist and molecular biologist.
[3] After graduating in chemistry at the University of Pavia in 1991, Conti achieved a PhD on protein cristallography at the Imperial College in London in 1996, with a thesis on the crystal structure of firefly luciferase".
[4][5] From 1997 to 1999 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller University in New York City; her postdoc advisor was John Kuriyan.
[2] Her research focuses on the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotic cells, particularly trying to discover the mechanism behind RNA recognition, metabolism and degradation, which is coupled to the translation machinery.
"[3] In 2014 she received the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine[7] for her important contributions to understanding the mechanisms governing RNA quality, transport and degradation.