Associate professor
I obtained my PhD in Molecular Medicine in 2009 at the University of Milan. During my PhD, I spent a year in Paris in a laboratory of the Sorbonne University and the French CNR to study Plasmodium genes that induced death in human endothelial cells. Today, in our laboratory, I work on Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes, to find potential new antimalarial drugs, but also to study the immune response they induced in humans. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, I have been collaborating with the virologists of the group to find drugs against SARS-CoV-2 and to study the pathogenesis of Covid-19. I teach General Pathology and I am happy with my double job, as a researcher and as a teacher.
Outside the laboratory, I love reading and inventing stories for my two children, spending time with friends and numerous relatives from Abruzzo.