GARRAFA Emirena Michela

Emirena Garrafa was born in Pisa on July 1972 the 25th.She became Medical Doctor at the University of Brescia on 1996, Specialist in Microbiology and Virology, in 2000 at the University of Brescia, Italy, Phd in Microbiology in 2003. From 1998 to 2000 was Guest researcher to the Laboratoir de Biochimie des Signaux Regulateurs Cellulaires et Moleculaires dell’Università Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. From 2000 to 2002 was Guest researcher to the section of Microbiology of the University of Ferrara. From 2003 she is Researcher (MED/07), Chair of Microbiology, University of Brescia. In 2006 she was Visiting professor to the Medical school of the University of Arizona, USA. From 2012 she moved to the SSD BIO/12. She is member of the following scientific Societies: Italian Society for Microbiology (SIM), Italian Society for Medical Virology (SIVIM), International society of Lymphology (ISL). She focused her attention to the following research areas: Biological activitie of p17 matrix protein of HIV, Viral vector for gene delivery and vaccination, Purification and characterization of blood and lymphatic endothelium and viral infection of blood and lymphatic endothelium. Furthermore she is interested on new markers for diagnosis of different pathologies.