Federica Sallusto

Italian microbiologist

Federica Sallusto
Born	1967 (age 56–57)
Nationality	Italy; Switzerland
Scientific career
Fields	biology, immunology

Federica Sallusto (born 27 November 1961 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian-Swiss biologist and immunologist. After high school, she studied Biology at Sapienza - University of Rome where she graduated cum laude.

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.^[1]

She is currently group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland^[2] and is professor of immunology at the Università della Svizzera italiana since 2017.^[3]

Research

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Federica+Sallusto

References

^ O'Byrne, P. M. (March 2005). "Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation and its Award for Young Scientists in Allergy Research". Allergy. 60 (3): 269–270. doi:10.1111/j.1398-9995.2005.00800.x. PMID 15679710.
^ Castelli, Paolo Rossi (13 December 2018). "Medicina, ecco dove ci porterà la ricerca". Corriere del Ticino (in Italian). Retrieved 6 January 2018.
^ "Lugano: inaugurato il nuovo anno dell'USI". www.ticinonews.ch. 15 September 2017.