Antonella Ronchi is a professor of Genetics at the University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) in Milano since 2007. Her studies focus on genetic mechanisms that control human hematopoiesis, the continuous process of cellular development and differentiation that produces all blood cells. In particular, her research group has characterized several genes and molecular networks that regulate the production of red blood cells (erythropoiesis) under physiological and tumor conditions.

Committed to fostering international collaborations and scientific training of young researchers, she is the coordinator of two Marie Skłodowska-Curie Initial Training Networks of the European Community, one being the HEM-ID, focused on Hematopoietic Cell Identity and the second being the ARCH project, focused on Aged-Related Changes in Hematopoiesis.