Prof Motta’s research activities are mainly focused on nature-derived polymers for tissue engineering applications, scaffold design, and interactions of material-biological systems. She has a long experience on silk-based matrices for application in tissue engineering such as bone, cartilage, brain, myocardium regeneration.’s research activities are mainly focused on nature-derived polymers for tissue engineering applications, scaffold design, and interactions of material-biological systems. She has a long experience on silk-based matrices for application in tissue engineering such as bone, cartilage, brain, myocardium regeneration.