Dr. Alessandra Fierabracci has been a senior scientist and group leader at the children’s hospital Bambino Gesù in Rome since 2001. Previously, she was a lecturer—with a permanent contract—of immunology at Queen Mary Westfield College (QMWC), London University (UK, 1997–2000) and a visiting scholar at the Department of Pediatrics, Pittsburgh University (PA) in 1999. She earned her MD at Pisa University in 1986 and her Ph.D. in Immunology at QMWC in 1996 and Experimental Pathology at Florence University in 1997.
Her research interests are related to the pathogenesis of autoimmune disorders with special reference to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 1 diabetes) and autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes.
She was awarded the 2011 EUWIIN (European Women Inventors and Innovator Network) Award (Aw) Best Woman Inventor (High Education), Reykjavik, 6–9 September 2011; the 2014 BFIIN Special Recognition Award and the 2014 World Invention Award BSI Silver Medal, London, 22–25 October 2014; and the Enrico Toti Prize for Invention/Innovation in 2016. In addition, she was awarded the Special Recognition Award 2017 EIWIIN (European International Women Inventors and Innovators), Bari, 28–29 June 2017.
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