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Dr. Schifanella is a Medical Doctor and Ph.D. with clinical, research and teaching experience in the field of Infectious and Tropical diseases. Dr. Schifanella obtained his medical degree in 2010 at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at Sacco Hospital at the University of Milan (UoM). He joined in 2012 the Vaccine Branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NCI/NIH) as an MD postdoctoral fellow. In 2017 he obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical and Experimental Medicine through a collaboration UoM and NIH-Graduate Partnerships Program. During the years at NIH, he co-designed, designed and conducted SIV/SHIV studies to test vaccines strategies that mirrored or predicted the results of several HIV vaccine clinical trials. He created or co-created HIV pre-clinical models to test novel vaccine candidates to uncover vaccine-induced immune responses to increase HIV vaccine efficacy. Moreover, Dr. Schifanella is interested in infectious diseases pathogenesis and in host mechanisms that control disease progression. Dr. Schifanella expertise and interest is in Infectious, Tropical and Emerging Diseases.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Post doctoral training: Immunology – HIV Vaccine – NHP models, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Vaccine Branch (VB) Bethesda, MD
Award Date: Apr 1 2017
PhD, Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; NIH/GPP, US
Award Date: Apr 1 2017
MD, Medicine and Surgery (Infectious and Tropical Diseases), University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Award Date: Oct 1 2010
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Leidos Biomedical RFP #S20-119
Karger, A., Bold, T. D., Jenkins, M., Schifanella, L., Thomas, S. & Thyagarajan, B.
Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
10/1/20 → 9/30/25
Project: Research project
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Mechanisms of microbiome-driven antiretroviral biodegradation and effects on viral reservoir
Klatt, N. R. & Schifanella, L.
NIH Natl Inst of Diabetes/Dig/Kidney Dis
4/17/20 → 7/31/21
Project: Research project
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HIV vaccine candidate efficacy in female macaques mediated by cAMP-dependent efferocytosis and V2-specific ADCC
Bissa, M., Kim, S., Galli, V., Fourati, S., Sarkis, S., Arakelyan, A., de Castro, I. S., Rahman, M. A., Fujiwara, S., Vaccari, M., Tomalka, J. A., Stamos, J. D., Schifanella, L., Gorini, G., Moles, R., Gutowska, A., Ferrari, G., Lobanov, A., Montefiori, D. C., Nelson, G. W., & 15 others , Dec 2023, In: Nature communications. 14, 1, 575.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mission, Organization, and Future Direction of the Serological Sciences Network for COVID-19 (SeroNet) Epidemiologic Cohort Studies
Figueiredo, J. C., Hirsch, F. R., Kushi, L. H., Nembhard, W. N., Crawford, J. M., Mantis, N., Finster, L., Merin, N. M., Merchant, A., Reckamp, K. L., Melmed, G. Y., Braun, J., Mcgovern, D., Parekh, S., Corley, D. A., Zohoori, N., Amick, B. C., Du, R., Gregersen, P. K., Diamond, B., & 77 others , Jun 1 2022, In: Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 9, 6, ofac171.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Recurrent bacterial vaginosis following metronidazole treatment is associated with microbiota richness at diagnosis
Gustin, A. T., Thurman, A. R., Chandra, N., Schifanella, L., Alcaide, M., Fichorova, R., Doncel, G. F., Gale, M. & Klatt, N. R., Feb 2022, In: American journal of obstetrics and gynecology. 226, 2, p. 225.e1-225.e15Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Adjuvant-mediated enhancement of the immune response to HIV vaccines
Ratnapriya, S., Perez-Greene, E., Schifanella, L. & Herschhorn, A., 2021, In: FEBS Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Alu retrotransposons and COVID-19 susceptibility and morbidity
Li, M., Schifanella, L. & Larsen, P. A., Jan 4 2021, In: Human Genomics. 15, 1, p. 2 2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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