Many of his studies devoted to respiratory viruses

Rome, June 4 (beraking latest news Salute) – Anna Teresa Palamara is the new director of the Infectious Diseases Department of the Higher Institute of Health. Doctor, graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Palamara is currently full professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine of the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome and is president of the College of Italian microbiologists.

“I am honored – Palamara said – to be able to carry out this role in an institution of such authority and prestige alongside President Silvio Brusaferro and at the service of public health. My goal – he explained – is to help organize a department that promotes a close synergy between research and public health activities and which, by networking with the other excellences of the country, can offer updated and consolidated knowledge and skills both to face the ‘daily coexistence’ with microorganisms and to be ready to manage any emergencies like the one we have experienced. The conditions are all there – he concluded – and this is demonstrated by the quality of the service that the Institute has rendered and continues to render to the country. Now it is only a question of enhancing that experience, making it grow and turn it to the future “.

“The institution’s vocation in research and in the promotion of public health is a common denominator of most of the study and research paths of Palamara”, the ISS recalls in a note.

President of Section III (Prevention and Public Health) of the Higher Council of Health (Css), from 2013 to 2019, elected president of the Italian Society of Microbiology (Sim) from 2013 to 2019 and author of more than 160 scientific publications, “la neo -president of the ISS infectious diseases department has devoted much of his studies to the knowledge of the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of diseases caused by viruses with particular attention to respiratory viruses, the role of microorganisms in the onset of neurodegenerative diseases and antibiotics -resistance”.