Dr. Ilenia Drigo graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Trieste in 2001 and continued her postgraduate training at Burlo Garofolo Hospital for four years as part of a research project on the resistance and sensitivity to glucocorticoids in pediatric patients. Since 2006, she has worked as a biologist at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Peripheral Diagnostic Laboratory 2 (SCT2) of Treviso. In September 2011, she obtained a specialization in microbiology and virology at the University of Padua. Currently, she is an executive biologist at the SCT2. Her diagnostic and research activities involve the application of molecular biology techniques in the diagnosis of viral and bacterial diseases and the molecular characterization of strains of pathogenic bacteria. She leads a scientific research project founded by the Ministry of Health and collaborates with an international research project aimed at studying animal botulism pathogenesis.