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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.
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PhD, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Vaccine Branch (VB) Bethesda, MD
Award Date: Apr 1 2017
PhD, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; NIH/GPP, US
Award Date: Apr 1 2017
MD, 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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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
Open Access2 Scopus citations -
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
Open Access10 Scopus citations -
Anti-V2 antibodies virus vulnerability revealed by envelope V1 deletion in HIV vaccine candidates
Silva de Castro, I., Gorini, G., Mason, R., Gorman, J., Bissa, M., Rahman, M. A., Arakelyan, A., Kalisz, I., Whitney, S., Becerra-Flores, M., Ni, E., Peachman, K., Trinh, H. V., Read, M., Liu, M. H., Van Ryk, D., Paquin-Proulx, D., Shubin, Z., Tuyishime, M., Peele, J. & 38 others, , Feb 19 2021, In: iScience. 24, 2, 102047.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations -
Cutting edge: Mouse sars-cov-2 epitope reveals infection and vaccine-elicited cd8 t cell responses
Joag, V., Wijeyesinghe, S., Stolley, J. M., Quarnstrom, C. F., Dileepan, T., Soerens, A. G., Sangala, J. A., O'flanagan, S. D., Gavil, N. V., Hong, S. W., Bhela, S., Gangadhara, S., Weyu, E., Matchett, W. E., Thiede, J., Krishna, V., Cheeran, M. C. J., Bold, T. D., Amara, R., Southern, P. & 6 others, , Jan 13 2021, In: Journal of Immunology. 206, 5, p. 931-935 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access8 Scopus citations