Elisabetta Dejana (born 1951) is an Italian cell biologist and an expert on regulation of vascular system development.
In 1983 she became chief of the vascular physiopathology unit of the same institute, leaving in 1988 to be a visiting scientist at the Department of Pathology of Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.
[1][2][3] While continuing to study vascular cell biology, Dejana also began to investigate angiogenesis, the process by which new blood vessels form in an embryo as well as during the growth of a tumour.
She researched this topic from 1993 to 1996 as director of the hematology laboratory of the Centre d'Études Nucléaires in Grenoble, France, while also teaching in Paris.
She has also been appointed full professor at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University, Sweden.