Federica Sallusto (born 27 November 1961 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian-Swiss
biologist
A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual cell, a multicellular organism, or a community of interacting populations. They usually specialize in ...
and immunologist.
After high school, she studied Biology at
Sapienza - University of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...
where she graduated ''
cum laude
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''.
In 1999, Sallusto, alongside
David Dombrowicz, was awarded the Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation Award, which is given annually to researchers under the age of 40 who are working on IgE‐associated disease.
She is currently group leader at the
in
Bellinzona,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
and is professor of
immunology at the
Università della Svizzera italiana since 2017.
Research
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Federica+Sallusto
References
External links
Institute for Research in Biomedicine
1961 births
Living people
Italian biologists
Italian women biologists
Italian microbiologists
Swiss biologists
Swiss microbiologists
Women microbiologists
Italian immunologists
Academic staff of the University of Palermo
Film people from Naples
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