Associate professor
I have a degree in Biology and a PhD in Microbiology, obtained at the University of Milan. Since the beginning of my PhD course, I have been working on malaria and I spent some months at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington to learn the techniques of parasite cultivation, the purification of parasite antigens and toxins and methods for drug screening. My research interests have therefore focused on the search for new antimalarial drugs and on the effects of the parasite or its products on the cells of the host’s innate immunity. For some years, I have also been working on Leishmaniasis and, in particular, on drug discovery and interactions between host cells and parasites. I teach General Pathology in several degree courses at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Outside the laboratory, I spend my free time with family and friends. I love hiking in the mountains.