Federica Sallusto

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

Federica Sallusto
Born1967 (age 53–54)
NationalityItalian
Scientific career
Fieldsbiology, immunology

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

In 2018 a study published in Nature and authored also by her research group highlighted the role in narcolepsy of T lymphocytes which attack the neuron producing hypocretin.[4][5][6]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Castelli, Paolo Rossi (13 December 2018). "Medicina, ecco dove ci porterà la ricerca". Corriere del Ticino (in Italian). Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  3. "Lugano: inaugurato il nuovo anno dell'USI". www.ticinonews.ch. 15 September 2017.
  4. "Ecco cosa scatena il sonno incontrollabile nei pazienti narcolettici". La Repubblica (in Italian). 24 September 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  5. "Scoperta la causa del sonno incontrollabile" (in Italian). ANSA. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  6. "Scoperta causa narcolessia da ricercatori di Bellinzona" (in Italian). Swissinfo. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
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