Maria Rosaria Capobianchi

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Maria Rosaria Capobianchi (* 1953 in Procida ) is an Italian biologist . She is a specialist in microbiology and heads a working group in the virological laboratory of the Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome. In February 2020, together with Francesca Colavita and Concetta Castilletti , she succeeded in isolating the SARS-CoV-2 virus , the causative agent of the lung disease COVID-19 . A partial sequencing of the genome of 2019-nCoV / Italy-INMI1 has been published on the GenBank database .

Life

Capobianchi received his PhD in biology from the University of Naples in 1976 . In 1988 she obtained a special degree in microbiology from La Sapienza University in Rome. After working as a researcher at the Institute of Virology at La Sapienza University, she worked at Spallanzani from 2000 . Her research focuses on the production and mode of action of interferons , the occurrence of viruses , chronic viral infections , the pathogenesis of AIDS and the development and standardization of test procedures. At INMI she worked from 2009 onwards at the “ WHO Collaborating center for the for clinical care, diagnosis, response and training on Highly Infectious Diseases”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coronavirus, Speranza: "Allo Spallanzani isolato il virus". rainews, February 2, 2020, accessed March 27, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Isolato presso il laboratorio di Virologia dell'INMI il nuovo coronavirus. Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive , February 2, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020 (Italian).
  3. ↑ a b Maria Rosaria Capobianchi. In: Scienza in rete. Retrieved March 27, 2020 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Maria Rosaria Capobianchi. Italian Ministry of Health , accessed March 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Capobianchi Maria Rosaria. In: UniCamillus. Retrieved March 27, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Procida