Dr. Dagnino is an Associate Professor of Physiology/Pharmacology and Paediatrics at the Western University. She is also a Research Scientist at the Childrens Health Research Institute and at the Lawson Health Research Institute, and a member of the Developmental Biology Graduate Program at Western.

Her research interests include regulation of growth and differentiation in the skin, as well as elucidation of the mechanisms of epidermal stem cell maintenance and regeneration of the epidermis after injury. She has made major contributions to this field, such as the identification of key proteins necessary for the establishment of barrier function in the epidermis and for wound healing. She has held multiple awards, including a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, a Premiers Excellence Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health, Science and Technology, and a Margaret P. Moffat Scholarship from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. She is currently a member or invited member of several national and international scientific review panels, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Science and Engineering Research Council and the National Instututes of Health in the U. S.