Tumor & Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

Barbara Chirullo has a PhD on Public Health Sciences And Microbiology. She has her expertise on human and veterinary health, particularly concerning the immune response, related to diseases of viral and bacterial origin, through different perspectives and with different tasks. She is currently young researcher at the Italian Public Heath Institute (Istituto Superiore di Sanita) working on a European project, funded by the European Commission, as a winner of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, in which she is focusing her attention on the interface between pathogens and immune system as an approach to understand their pathogenicity, and the development of new therapeutic strategies to selectively target tumor cells.