Vittorio Colizzi

Vittorio was born in Rome the 7 February 1949.

He is married with 5 children. VC held the medical degree at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with full honor. VC is specialist in Clinical of Infectious Diseases (University of Rome) and in Hygiene and Public Health (University of Pisa), and PhD in Immunology (Brunnel University, England). His doctorate and post-doc experience have been carried out at the Clinical Research Centre in Harrow (England). He has been Assistant in Microbiology, and Associate professor in Immunology at the University of Pisa. Since 2000 to now, VC is Full Professor of Immunology and Director of the UNESCO Chair in Biotechnology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. VC has been also President (2007-2010) of the Board of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani” in Rome, Italy, and Scientific Director (2009-2011) of the International Reference Centre for AIDS “Chantal Biya” in Yaoundè, Cameroon, and President of the academic spin-off Technology Development for Africa 2005-2011). He is consultants for several agencies of the United Nations (UNESCO, UNDP, OMS) and is scientific coordinator of several European and international Projects. Actually VC is President of the University spin-off Afroinnova (Cameroonian SA). VC published over 230 scientific publications on peer-review journals (Nature, Journal of Immunology, Infection and Immunity, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Clinical Experimental Immunology, A, IDS, AIDS and Human Retrovirus Journal, etc.) in the sector of Microbial Immunology and Infectious Diseases, with special focus on AIDS and Tuberculosis. On 2012, VC has founded the research & development company MirNat.

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Ivana Matic

Ivana was born in Belgrade on 9th of September 1982.

She is a cell and molecular biologist specialized in immunology. She graduated in 2006 at the University of Belgrade in Molecular biology and physiology, and got her PhD in 2010 in Cellular and molecular biology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her areas of research expertise include regulation of inflammatory response to infections and neuropharmacology. In 2011, Ivana moved from the academia to industry to work on design and preclinical and clinical development of natural extracts and dietary supplements with anti-aging properties. She began working in patent law in 2013, while preparing a patent application for anti-age plant extracts and has been actively engaged in intellectual property in biotechnology since. In 2018 she completed a two-year course in European Patent Law at Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies of University of Strasbourg. Ivana has been a member of the MirNat team since 2016, when she joined the Company as the Intellectual Property Protection Consultant. Currently, she is working at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Giulia Carrera

Giulia Carrera was born in Rome on 04 February 1999.

Her high education has been at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she obtained in 2021 the Bachelor’s Degree of Biological Sciences with a thesis focused on quantification of anti-inflammatory microRNAs in covid19 patients for the development of new therapeutic approaches.

She is currently involved in research activity about human and plant microRNAs and their modulation of immunologic pathways.

Flavia del Gallo

Flavia was born in Rome on the 3 July 1960.

She is married with two daughters. Her high education has been at the University of Rome La Sapienza where she took the degree in Biological Sciences with full merit in 1984. At the same University, FDG has been enrolled in the PhD course in Experimental Medicine at the Laboratory of Immunology and Pathology of the Faculty of Biological Sciences. During the PhD course, she was involved in the study of the autoreactivity and vaccine development in human tuberculosis with 3 publications in international journals. FDG obtained the PhD title in Experimental Medicine in 1990 and after, she moved from science to art by enrolling on the Art Academy in Rome on Internal Decoration. FDG worked as interior decorator in Italy and England where had been resident for many years. In 2005, FDG has been involved in the decoration of the International Reference Centre for AIDS in Yaounde (Cameroon) and she started to be interested again in science and traditional medicine (medical plants). In 2012, FDG founded the research & development company MirNat and is now acting as Manager for Scientific relations and Commercial partnerships.

Andrea Galgani

Andrea was born in Rome on 12 February 1966.

His high education has been at the University of Rome La Sapienza where he obtained the Degree of Biological Sciences and the PhD degree on Endocrinology and Metabolism. In 1998 he obtained the specialization degree on HCCP and Safety Management. Since 2000, AG is involved activity in genetics in diabetes and other metabolic disorders both at the University of Rome La Sapienza and at the Paediatric Vatican Hospital Bambino Gesù (Rome). In 2003 AG was a visiting scientist at the Roche Molecular System of Alameda, California. Actually, AG is technical personnel at the Animal House Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. AG has published more than 15 papers on international journals.