Daniela Maria Cirillo
San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan, Italy
Biography
Daniela Maria Cirillo is a board certified clinical microbiologist, Head of the Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute (HSR) in Milan, Italy and Director of the WHO SRL, Collaborating Center ITA98, Italian Reference Centre for Mycobacterial Typing. The main fields of interest are: research on new diagnostic for MDR/XDR-TB, M.tuberculosis pathogenesis, virulence markers, host pathogens interaction, NTMs and nosocomial pathogens. rnAuthor of more than 130 peer-reviewed original papers.rnInternational appointments: Elected member of the ECDC TB disease Coordinating Committee, CoChair of the New Diagnostic Working Group of the Stop TB partnership, Core Group elected member of the Global Drug Resistance Initiative (GDI) of the Stop TB partnership-WHO, member of Global Laboratory Initiative, member of the Core Group of the ERLN-TB. On-going international grants: CRYPTIC 1 (2015-17) and 2 (2016-19) consortium coordinated by Oxford University, ReSeq TB supported by the BMGF, E-Detect TB EU-Health (2016-19)rnShe is currently involved in the WGS Global Surveillance Molecular project coordinated by WHO.rn
Abstract
Abstract : Turning WGS-based diagnostics into practice for diagnosis of drug resistant tuberculosis