Alessandra Amendola received her B.D. in Biology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, in 1992; her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, in 1996; and her Specialization in Microbiology and Virology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, in 2002. Since 2000, she has been a biologist and researcher at the Laboratory of Virology at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani". Her research interests mainly focus on HIV, etiopathogenesis of HIV infection, diagnostic assays for monitoring viral load (HIV-RNA); diagnosis of viral infections; respiratory viruses; and SARS CoV-2. She is a councillor at the Regional Order of Biologists of Lazio and Abruzzo, Italy. She is the author of 90 publications, 82 of which are featured in international indexed journals.