ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

2024 – to present Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology and Virology San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, School of Medicine, Via Olgettina, 58 20132 Milan, Italy Ricercatore a t.d. - t. pieno (art. 24 c.3-b L. 240/10)

2021 – 2023
Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology and Virology (RTD-B) San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, School of Medicine, Via Olgettina, 58 20132 Milan, Italy Ricercatore a t.d. - t. pieno (art. 24 c.3-b L. 240/10)

2016 –2020 Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology and Virology (RTD-A) San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, School of Medicine, Via Olgettina, 58 20132 Milan, Italy Ricercatore a t.d. - t. pieno (art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10)

2012-2015 Adjunct Professor (Professore “a contratto”) of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology
San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, School of Medicine, Via Olgettina, 58 20132 Milan, Italy

UniSR ACADEMIC ACTIVITY:

Course coordinator
- Coordinator of Microbiology Course at “International MD program” School of Medicine (IMDP – starting A.Y. 2023/2024)
- Coordinator of Microbiology Course at “Biotechnological Research in Medicine” (RBM) Degree Course from 2016 (before 2018: "CdL Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies)
- Coordinator of Molecular Virology Course at “Biotechnology and Medical Biology” (BMB) Master Degree Course (from 2019)
- Coordinator of Elective Course “Human Microbiome as a New Organ? Snapshots From the Clinics” at International MD Program (from 2023)

Degree Courses (CdL, CdLS, CdLM)
- Professor of Medical Microbiology at Microbiology Class at School of Medicine (2014-2021) and APRO (from 2021)
- Professor of Medical Virology at Microbiology Class at “International MD program” School of Medicine (from 2013)
- Professor of Molecular Virology at “Medical and Cellular Molecular Biotechnologies” (BMMC) Master Degree Course (from 2012) (current name: Molecular Virology Course at “Biotechnology and Medical Biology” BMB)
- Professor of Microbiology at “Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies” Degree Course (from 2013) (current name: Microbiology Course at “Biotechnological Research in Medicine” (RBM)

Post Graduate Specialization Schools
Professor of Medical Microbiology and Virology at Specialization School in Medical Microbiology and Virology (from 2011)
- Member of the Council of the Specialization School in Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry (from 2017)
- Member of the Council of the Specialization School in Gynecology and Obstetrics (from 2019)
- Member of the Council of the Specialization School in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine (from 2016)
- Member of the Council of the Specialization School in Digestive System Diseases (2017-2019)
- Member of the Council of the Specialization School in Neurology (2017-2019; 2021-2022)
- Member of the Council of the Specialization School in Hematology (from 2021)
- Member of the Council of the Specialization School in Infectious and Tropical Diseases (from 2020)
- Member of the Council of the Specialization School in Dermatology and Venereology (from 2020)

PhD Schools:

- Director of Studies (DoS) PhD School (Curriculum Clinical Experimental Medicine) – (from 2021)
- Teaching Staff member (Dottorato di Interesse Nazionale, Membro del Collegio dei Docenti) - One Health approaches to infectious diseases and life science research (from 2023) (https://spmsf.dip.unipv.it/it/didattica/post-laurea/dottorati-di-ricerca/one-health-approaches-infectious-diseases-and-life-32)
- Member of evaluation committees for admission at PhD School at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (2018-2019) (Curriculum: Clinical Experimental Medicine)

Other academic activities:

At CdL Biotechnological Research in Medicine” (RBM):
- Member of the Teaching Committee (Commissione Didattica) “Biotechnological Research in
- Medicine” (RBM) (from 2022)
- Member of Commissione di Riesame Ciclico CdL “Biotechnological Research in Medicine” (RBM) (from 2024)
- Thesis Supervisor (nr. 19 – 2017 to 2022) or Co-supervisor (nr. 6 – 2015 to 2017)
- Member of commission for incoming student transfer at CdL in RBM (from 2020)
- Tutor: 3rd year class - Biotechnological Research in Medicine (RBM)

At CdLS Biotechnology and Medical Biology (BMB):
Post Graduate Specialization School
- Head of teacher-students Joint sub-commission (Responsabile Sottocommissione Paritetica Docenti-Studenti (scCPDS) CdLS BMB (from 2023) (member of commission from 2021)
- Thesis Supervisor (nr. 13 – 2019 to 2025) or Co-supervisor (nr. 3 – 2012 to 2018) of Master Degree Experimental Thesis
- Member of the Examination Board for the admission test at CdLS in BMB (from 2020)
- Member of the commission for the evaluation of application to Student-Athlete Status (Commissione per valutazione delle domande di accesso al percorso per lo Status di Studente-Atleta) (BMB) (2021)
- Member of commission for incoming student transfer at CdLS in BMB (from 2020)


Specialization School:
- Tutor: Specialization School in Medical Microbiology and Virology
- Thesis supervisor (nr. 1 - 2024)
- Thesis co-supervisor (nr. 2 - 2019/2023)


HOSPITAL ACTIVITY:
2020 – to present: IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital (OSR) Microbiology and Virology Specialist at San Raffaele Hospital (Ospedale San Raffaele), Via Olgettina, 60 20132 Milan, Italy

- Consultant Microbiologist for the “Stem Cell Programme Ospedale San Raffaele” (“Consulente del Programma Trapianti” - Prot. N° 18/UTMO/FC/ra) (from May 2023)

- Coordinator of Molecular Microbiology and Drug-Resistance Sequencing Unit at Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology San Raffaele Hospital (from August 2022)

- BSL-3 activity coordination for the identification, isolation and characterization of viral pathogens (from the 2020 he coordinated the isolation from clinical samples of almost all the main SARS-CoV-2 VOCs and VOI so far described and the isolation of MPXV from clinical specimens)

- Implementation of bacterial and fungal metagenomics for diagnostic purposes (Metagenomic 18S and 16S rDNA based identification of fungi and bacteria from clinical samples such as sterile fluids, biopsies, cardiac valves, whole blood and plasma.)

- Coordinator of NGS-based SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing for the Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine at OSR (from March 2020)

- Diagnostic Microbiology and Serology activity: Serology Section: clinical validation of routine serological analyses of HIV, HCV, Syphilis (RPR-TPHA-FTA), EBV, HSV, VZV, CMV, ZKV, DNGV, COXV, RUB, Measles, Helicobacter, Acanthamoeba, Entamoeba, Rickettsia conorii, Coxiella burnetii, Borrelia and respiratory viruses.

From August 2022 he implemented for the hospital diagnostic routine the molecular identification of Coxiella, Tropheryma, Rickettsia, Bartonella, Brucella


National Scientific Habilitation

2020- 2030: National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology 06 A3 – MED/07 (prima fascia)

2017- 2027: National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology 06 A3 – MED/07 (seconda fascia)

Awards
LURIA AWARD 2017, Italian Society for Virology (Società Italiana di Virologia SIV-ISV) SIV-ISV 25-28 June 2017

Editorial activity
Review Editor for Virology in “Frontiers in Microbiology” – Virology - (Impact Factor 5.2)
Guest Associate Editor for Experimental Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Frontiers in
Pharmacology (IF: 4.400) 01-03-2017 to 01-06-2018

Scientific review activity :

Review activity for Nature communications
Review activity for Cell Reports
Review activity for Antiviral research
Review activity for International journal of molecular sciences
Review activity for Journal of infectious diseases
Review activity for Viruses
New Microbiologica

Auditor for Competitive Calls

Grant Proposal Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF Starting Grant application - Swiss National Science Foundation - SNSF 2024

Invited speaker at Congresses:

17° ICAAR - Italian Conference on AIDS and Antiviral Research; Pre-Conference Advanced Course, Padua, May 2025

3° edizione NASCERE BENE VIVERE SANI - Senigallia (AN) - "Le vaccinazioni in gravidanza"

52° SIM (Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Microbiologia). "- Molecular determinants of respiratory viruses pathogenesis"
Pavia 8-09-2024 to 11-09-2024

SIM - Advanced School in Microbiology and Host Microbe Interaction. Micro-informatics “A bio-informatics course for microbiologists How to characterize the structure, function, and dynamics of microbial communities” Main lecture on omics in microbiology: basic principles and applications Key methodological and pre analytical issues. Rationale and critical issues on experimental planning. 7 March 2024

12° ICAAR - Italian Conference on AIDS and Antiviral Research; Pre-Conference Advanced Course Plenary Room “New frontiers in medical virology” Relatore: “Next-generation sequencing: a methodology changing the way to understand genome sequencing, evolution, ecology and discovery of viruses”
12-16 October 2020

46° SIM (Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Microbiologia). "Universal Influenza Vaccine Development Strategies"
Palermo 26-09-2018 to 29-09-2018

“Corso Avanzato In Patologia E Clinica Del Tratto Genitale Femminile Inferiore” Comitato Coordinatore Scientifico: Italian HPV Study Group “Mario Sideri”:
"Lower genitourinary tract infections". Talk on: “Vaginal Microbiome alteration, dysbiosis and increased risks of transmission of sexually trasmitted infections”
Years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

OMCeOMI (ecm@omceomi.it) "Immunità naturale e profilassi vaccinale: i profili immunologici del SARS-Cov-2" webinar
26 mar 2021 “SARS-CoV-2 viral variants and serological diagnosis”

"Microbiota and Cancer"
ISPRO (Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica).
ISPRO Viale Pieraccini 6, Florence
21-11-2019

Communications at Congresses:

“SIV-ISV "ONE VIROLOGY ONE HEALTH" Padua, 2019 "Detection of Drug Resistant HCV Mutations Observed by NGS Analysis" (VIRAL DIAGNOSIS SECTION)
10-09-2019 -12-09-2019

“SIV-ISV "ONE VIROLOGY ONE HEALTH"
"Antibody-Mediated Inhibition of HSV-1 and HSV-2 Cell-To-Cell
Transmission Mechanism as Possible Therapeutic Strategy",
Milan 25-06-2017 - 28-06-2017

“SIVIM”, Milan, 5-7 maggio 2010; Milano, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele
"Human Monoclonal Antibody Able to Neutralize a Broad Range of H1 and H3 Subtype Influenza A Viruses" 05-05-2010 - 07-05-2010

Membership of scientific Societies and Foundations:

- Member of the Italian Society for Virology (SIV-ISV) http://siv-isv.org/
- Member of “VIRONET C Foundation” (Fondazione Vironet C Onlus); Via Dalmazia, 25 – Rome, from January 2023 https://www.vironetc.org
- Member of European Virus Bioinformatics Center (EVBC), Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, Germany since 2018 http://evbc.uni-jena.de/about-us/members/
- Member of American Society for Microbiology ASM 10-04-2016 to 2017
- Member of SIVIM (Società Italiana di Virologia Medica) 01-07-2008 to 01-01-2012

Patents:

Patent application no. WO 2023/073441 A1 4th May 2023 "Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against Sarbecoviruses"
(Identification and cloning of fully human monoclonal antibodies endowed with neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants AND SARS-CoV-1)

Grants:
Coordinator: Bando Unmet Medical Needs – IN SIGNO Project (ID 3423223). Antimicrobial resistance (28/03/2023 to present)

PRIN – Bando 2022 Responsabile Scientifico UO Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Prot. 2022EJL28B (29/05/2023-29/05/2025)

PRIN 2017 Responsabile del'Unità di Ricerca (Responsabile Scientifico dell'UO Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele) (25/10/2022-25/09/2023)

Member of One Health Basic and Translational Actions Addressing Unmet Needs on Emerging Infectious Diseases (INF ACT) - ESEARCH NODE 1: Virus Emergenti e Ri-Emergenti – SPOKE LED BY: Università di Pavia (UNIPV)

Dissemination Activity:

- “COVID-19: la pandemia vista al microscopio” Senigallia 31 August 2021 – Rotary Club Senigallia
- Live Streaming on COVID-19 “Affrontare le paure al tempo del coronavirus: dalla scienza alla pratica professionale” – Associazione Italiana Fisioterapisti (A.I.F.I) - 10 April 2020
- World Polio Day (Giornata Mondiale Della Polio Promossa Dal Rotary International)
“Problema delle malattie contagiose: la poliomielite ed il valore assoluto della vaccinazione”
Rimini, 25 October 2014 - Rotary International
- Participation to “Programma di Orientamento attivo nella transizione scuola-università”, funded by Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR). 2022-2023