Role
Honorary Professor at the University of Padua; former Full Professor of General Pathology at the same university and Head of the Oncological Virology Unit (Veneto Oncology Institute (IOV)-IRCCS).
Bio
She graduated in Biology in 1976 from the University of Padua, where she continued her research as a fellow and, from 1981, as a researcher. In 1986, she specialized in Microbiology and Virology; in 1992, she became an associate professor, and since 2004, she has been a full professor of General Pathology at the Department of Surgical, Oncological, and Gastroenterological Sciences at the same university.
Since 2005, she has been head of the Oncological Virology Unit at the Veneto Oncology Institute (IOV)-IRCCS and since 2017, vice president of the Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Padua. In 2023, she retired and was subsequently appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Padua, culminating a career dedicated to biomedical and oncology research.
His research focuses on human retroviruses in the pathogenesis of neoplasms and immunodeficiencies, with particular attention to pediatric AIDS , early diagnosis of perinatal HIV infections, and mechanisms of mother-to-child transmission. He also studies neoplastic diseases associated with the Epstein-Barr virus in immunosuppressed patients and the role of the telomere-telomerase complex in cellular replication potential and oncogenesis.
Author of over 300 scientific publications, her studies on TERT circulating in plasma were among the first to indicate, in the field of liquid biopsy, a useful marker for monitoring neoplastic disease and response to therapy.